Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...necessary or that it should stand as an obstacle in the adoption of this new proposal. The University needs without a doubt a second dining hall. The Memorial Hall directors have hit upon something which promises well and is acknowledged to be practicable. It is a last effort to secure this most urgent need and therefore the members of the University who are affected one way or another by the outcome of this discussion are earnestly asked to consider the new plan carefully and if possible to subscribe...
...them, the men may well feel proud of their record; it will be a triumph over odds which will increase the satisf action of winning. If they loose, there will be still another chance to even up the honors and the defeat should be hut a spur to greater effort...
...pressing influence on a visiting team even so far as to turn a probable victory into defeat. Let a nine or eleven realize that in the mass of on lookers, there are some who are in sympathy with them and ready to encourage by their cheers every worthy effort, then they will play with an increased vigor that is often enough to win the victory. It is not so much the knowledge than ten or twenty or thirty college friends are watching the game, that encourages the men; it is rather the realization that the class or university has interest...
...effort is being made at the University of Pennsylvania to revive the interest in lacrosse...
...would be nonsense to give at this early date any estimate of what Harvard's chances will be. It is sufficient to say that the fact that some men go to training table earlier than usual shows that Mr. Lathrop and Captain Thompson mean to make every effort to win in both the Yale Games and the Intercollegiate Games at New York. The date of the Yale Games is May 13, that of the Yale "Mott Haven" Games...