Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last year Harvard was unfortunate in losing the match with the University of Pennsylvania, but defeat shows only that effort should be made to put as strong a team as possible in the field this year, and in order to do that it is necessary for every member of the club to be present at all the meetings he can, and to lend his aid in every...
...time of the winter meetings for pulling on the rope and exercising with the chest-weights. Though '89 in former years has been unsuccessful in her attempts to win the laurel for the tug-of-war contests, she will not lose it this year without a more severe effort than ever before...
...effort is being made at Trinity to have a crew this spring...
There is a strong effort being made at Exeter to abolish the tug-of-war contests in the winter meeting, on account of the dangers of physical injury...
...reference to the study of Homer, Professor Wright urged that the student approach him with the feeling that he is nearing a monument in literature; not to blend futile research into minor matters with the effort to appreciate the poem. This is not necessary. If the student will read the poems of Homer as a literature he will be brought into direct and vivid contact with the poet and will see and understand as by instinct...