Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...requires and the number of men interested in it. The plan proposed will go far towards raising its standing. The Bicycle Club deserves a word of praise for its energy. It is one of the most flourishing athletic clubs in college and should be well supported in its effort to broaden the field of intercollegiate athletics...
...this time last year, the Ninety-one Glee Club had already given two concerts. This year's freshman club will, therefore, have to make a great effort in order to make up the time lost by the comparatively late start. The certainty that there is good material in the club is encouraging, and if faithful work is done by every member there can be little doubt of success. The most important duty for each member at present is to attend every rehearsal. The men need, more than anything else, practice in singing together. It is sure that, however energetic...
There is at present a very bitter rivalry between the University Glee Club and the Apollo Club at Yale. The latter club was organized early last fall by A. E. Jenks, '89, who is one of the leading literary men in college. The efforts of the club have met with great success and now the musical honors of the college are divided between the two clubs. The members of the university club have remonstrated with the manager of the Apollo Club, but he cannot be persuaded to disband his organization. On Monday the university club held a meeting and voted...
...athletics, and fine grounds are laid out for cricket, foot-ball and tennis, as well as for track athletics, while about two miles from the school is Long Pond, which furnishes a good stretch of water for the crews. Cricket might be called the school game, and every effort is made by the masters to encourage it. Each of the two cricket clubs, "Isthmian" and "Old Hundred," have four elevens, and the school team is picked from these. Base-ball has been forbidden as it was found to detract from the interest in cricket...
...effort was recently made by the junior class to have the restrictions in regard to writing for the junior exhibition removed by the faculty so that the whole class, or at least all on the appointment list, could write; and a petition to that effect signed by forty-five out of the fifty eligible men has been presented to the faculty, but no action has been taken...