Word: effort
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...make this thing a success, Ninety-four should turn out in a body and let its class loyalty be known. Every effort will be made to have the dinner a thoroughly unpartisan affair. For the time being, at least, all will meet on a common level and the grouping of men by cliques will be avoided as far as possible. The committee is anxious that a feeling of comradeship should prevade the dinner. At no time in the history of the class has Ninety-four had a chance to unite as one body, with one interest. This dinner should...
...effort is being made to preserve Elmwood, the estate of the late James Russell Lowell...
...class of '55, stating in full the need and appropriateness of the proposed building and calling for voluntary subscriptions. These circular letters, together with clippings from the various papers containing articles relative to the subject, will be sent to all the living graduates of Harvard and every effort will be made to push the scheme through successfully...
...last number of Harper's Weekly, Casper Whitney discusses at length the recent action of Yale in regard to undergraduates on 'varsity teams. Although expressing himself strongly in favor of the effort to exclude all professional element from college sports and denying that Yale's action was taken with intent of "freezing out" the University of Pennsylvania, he does not commit himself as favoring the new rule. He argues with more or less reason that it is a narrow policy to exclude men in the professional school from participating in athletic contests and unjust to the honest student. He admits...
There are however, some facts in connection with this effort for the "purification of athletics" which are not generally known and which ought to be well understood. Yale cannot justly claim to be the originator of this scheme to reduce college athletics to the minimum of professionalism, as current reports would seem to imply. In point of fact Harvard made a proposition to Yale in May of 1890 which practically covered the ground now taken by Yale. This proposition contained articles of agreement which should regulate all contests in football, baseball, rowing. and track and field athletics. The article...