Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball on the St. George's grounds at Hoboken yesterday afternoon afforded a good opportunity for study of the Yale team of this season. It may be fancied a trifle lighter than usual, but not much; the rush-line was heavy enough to carry Stevens before it with every effort. The team play is superb, the blocking and passing excellent, though the catching strangely uncertain; the running is fair; the tackling is too high and consequently appears weak. On the whole Yale will have to do better than yesterday to beat Princeton, but no doubt will improve vastly with...
...Berenson, is crude. It seems to prove that the writer's strength lies in prose. The first three lines are harsh, and "need the file." The thought, again, is obscure, and the lines often labor. "The Last of the Adventures," by Mr. Bruce, is not a powerful effort. It is direct, admirably written and picturesque, but it is disconnected. There is lacking something of that "swing" so peculiar to the writer's better work. A translation of the second epode of Horace, by Mr. Isham, which received a Sargent prize, is in many respects a masterpiece of direct, literal translation...
...runs. The present weather is in every respect so well suited for a successful run that it is a matter of surprise that one has not already been arranged. Every day of such weather should be utilized. In past years the runs have been invariable successful, and an extra effort should be made to bring the sport before the new students, for the exercise is adapted to develop staying powers as well as fleetness of foot. While the exertion of a quick run is often too severe for the ordinary man, the slow runs offer an opportunity to all. There...
...graduates are making every effort to have the match game of football for undergraduates' day played on Holmes instead of on Jarvis...
About one hundred and twenty-five students have applied to Mr. Hayes for instruction in elocution, and a strong effort has been made to arrange the classes at such times as would be convenient for the majority of men who desire to take the work. It has doubtless been impossible to fix upon any place of meeting that would suit the whole number of applicants, as the hours indicated by students have so conflicted that nearly a third of the men who care for the subject will be debarred from taking it on account of other work which comes...