Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effort is being made to introduce lacrosse at the University of Pennsylvania...
...proposed to establish a reading-room where the students might be able to consult the prominent daily papers and the leading periodicals. It was found to be impracticable, and the plan died a natural death. The plan is again revived and now promises to be realized. An effort is being made to interest the students in the movement, and it is hoped that it will soon prove an institution of permanence and general benefit. There has long been needed some means by which the students can be able to consult the papers of the day with greater facility than...
...selection of the readings, and they are given by gentlemen whose names assure those who care to interest themselves in the matter that attendance will fully repay any one for the time he may give to it. The most prominent gentlemen in their several departments are lending their best efforts to the success of the course, and the readings already given are examples of the excellence which may justly be expected in the readings which are to follow. Too many of us are apt to lay aside the classical or even the modern languages, when once our minds are diverted...
...have been so often filled with discussions of the advantages of a well supported and well equipped reading-room, that further discussion would be out of place. For several reasons former attempts in the direction of a reading-room have failed, but let it be hoped that this latest effort may meet with the support it deserves. The book at the office of the Co-operative Society should receive not one, but two or three hundred names...
Some doubt is expressed as to the future of Holmes and Austin clubs, but it is thought that a little effort will enable at least one of them to pull through this year...