Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...realize this now, it devolves on the freshman captain to see that his charge is imbued with the proper spirit. The college looks to him as the person responsible for the earnestness and seriousness with which Ninety-six undertake her work. He will be supported heartily in every effort he may make to enforce discipline and to encourage his men to look upon their practice as work and not play. He should remember, however, that in return for this confidence in him, the college expects to see a radical change in the spirit which the men show at present...
...severe rather to point out the direction in which careful coaching is particularly necessary. The nine is composed of men who are as good individually at least, as any other lot of nine men picked from one college. We shall probably have as coach Colonel Winslow, to whose effort a great part of the success of last year's nine is due. We start the season then very auspiciously and improvement ought to be rapid. The games on the spring trip are with strong nines, which will give the team excellent practice, one may expect then that the faults...
...play will be given as nearly as possible in the manner in which such a play would be given in the time of Augustus, although probably no masks will be used. The effort will be made to make the presentation rather an illustration than a modern dramatic entertainment...
...came the first collapse of his intellect, it being precipitated by his fear of an examination for the position of Clerk of Journals to the House of Lords. He had first attempted suicide, but had failed in the effort. After eighteen months in an asylum he recovered and went to Huntington to see his brother. Here he met the Unwins and soon became an inmate of their home. On the death of Mr. Unwin the family went to Olney and Cowper with them. Due greatly to the bad influence of a Mr. Newton, curate of the parish...
...further result in a very effective separation of the two. It is even possible that the amateur and the professional game may come to occupy quite different places in American life and it is a question if either one would be hurt by the distinction. Add to this the effort which is now being directed award the purification of athletics, that is the exclusion of professionalism, and it may not be many years before we shall have college baseball where it belongs...