Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...report calls attention still further to the greater effort that has been made to keep the standard of admission for special students high. Many candidates under twenty years of age or who could not undertake the advanced work which special students should take have been refused admission...
...hours when men most want to read and have the most time to do so, they are prevented by the closing of the library for lack of means of lighting it. It is unfortunate that last year we were balked in our plans for lights, but an effort and an early effort should be made this year to give us this needed chance at the library. It is growing very tiresome - this being turned out of the library in the middle of the afternoon, and in a University like ours the difficulty should be overcome. It can be remedied...
They did indeed reduce both courtesy and love to a fantastic code and concerned themselves with questions whose solutions were of no value, but back of all this ill-balanced effort there lay a spirit of gentle relations between all men and women that has made a profound impression on succeeding ages...
This year, however, we should make a better effort on our part, we should get the public more interested in the event, and therefore, to make it a greater success, the debate here should be held in Boston. By this means a greater interest would be taken in it by outsiders and a larger and better hall could be obtained. Yale held the New Haven debate last year in a large public hall filled by an audience of citizens as well as students, and it was a great success. Moreover they received our representatives with great cordiality and entertained them...
...objections to the mile walk are numerous and strong. In the first place it is very ungraceful, and worse, it often partakes equally of the ridiculous and the disgusting. In the walker's effort to take long strides without rising from the ground, he is forced to very exaggerated and unnatural motions of all parts of his body. But these asthetic draw-backs are of least impotance...