Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Delavan House after the concert. At 1.20 A.M. the special sleeper was attached to a mail train and the club were hurried away from Albany, each man bearing a special delivery stamp and addressed to the Dean, U. 5. As they were considered first class mail matter every effort was made to get them here as nearly as possible on time and early morning found them at Cambridge somewhat the worse for wear but willing to be sent again...
...Turner then displayed some very interesting pictures showing the difference of the students., before coming and after leaving the Institute, He also showed scenes from the Western reservations, giving a clear idea of the manner in which the Indians are treated and how little effort is made to educate them...
...English department. For years the course has been regarded as one which "must be" but which is not sufficiently important to demand much thought and attention. Indeed, not a few instructors have freely stated that the course was a bore and they took little interest in it. If the effort were made to make the course at least more interesting, to improve many of the details and - since it seems necessary - to enforce regulations to compel students to work better the course would be more effective. We do not criticise the work of any one year; some instructors have given...
THERE seems to be a marked effort this year to give greater importance to the subject of Elocution. Mr. Hayes still continues his courses in that subject, Mr. Copeland is giving a largely attended course in Reading and Speaking, and tomorrow night Rev. Edward E. Hale delivers a lecture upon the Art of Extemporary Speaking. The ability to speak well what one thinks, to clothe ideas concisely in appropriate and unaffected words, and, moreover, to pronounce them correctly is an art generally neglected by college men. Yet the subject is not the indifferent one it seems to many; it connects...
...Yale-Harvard debate will be held by the Union this evening in Sever 11 at half past seven. The prospects for a good debate this year are very good; the Union has made arrangements to hold it here on a larger scale than last year and every effort will be made to make it a success. What is now wanted is firm backing from the college, an interest among the students that will bring out tonight from the college a large number of speakers. If the college takes the interest in these debates that they deserve and should have given...