Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...much needs. From needs. From various sources contributions to the amount of $13,750 have recently been sent to the treasurer. Besides this there is a promise of $4000, which will leave $12.250 to be collected by April 1, when the refusal for sixty days expires. Every effort is being made to raise the lacking sum. It is requested that subscriptions be sent Edward. W. Hooper, treasurer of Harvard University, 50 State street Boston; in no case to the Dental School or the committee in charge...
...first night will be for the Club alone. Each succeeding entertainment, however, will be open to the public. In the larger cities there will be lists of honorary members, who are entitled to buy tickets for the private performances. Tours will be taken yearly through these cities in the effort to arouse a wide public interest for a better class of plays of literary merit. It is an attempt to save the stage from being cast out of the field of literature, on the ground that the stage rightfully belongs to Art and Letters alone. Henry B. McDowel...
...There was a fair number of entries and a good crowd. But the failure of the meeting was due almost entirely to the men who entered and backed out at the last minute. This is the same experience which we have had for several years. In spite of every effort, interest in wrestling and sparring has steadily decreased. It is a questionable policy to try to foster what little spirit there is for this kind of athletics, if the college will not respond with more enthusiasm than it did on Saturday. Rather than let another exhibition of this kind...
...possibility of being hypnotized is not limited to people of nervous temperament or weak wills. There is nothing extraordinary about either hypnotizer or subject, but the former must be skilled in the art of making fitting suggestions, the latter must desire to be hypnotized, making the effort to go to sleep while giving attention to any expressions of the will of the hypnotizer. When successfully hypnotized the subject is still awake to the voice of the hypnotizer and can converse with him. Having now no desire to make prominent his individual will the subjects capacity for imitation, which is ordinarily...
...banks of the Charles from being made a hideous spectacle of factories, wharfs and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked to do is to sign the petitions which have been left in places of easy access-a slight effort in view of what it may help to accomplish...