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Word: efforts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effort is being made to build a new gymnasium at Bowdoin, Dr. Sargent has offered to fit it up at his own expense if the funds for the building are forthcoming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/11/1885 | See Source »

...longer experience, and, perhaps, because it has become customary of late years for the senior crew to win the class races. Moreover, as this is the last opportunity for eighty-five to retrieve her bedimmed rowing record, it is expected that her crew will put forth every possible effort to take the place which their seniority would assign to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/9/1885 | See Source »

...team remain in college that the nine will have but few new players on it, and these, although new, will be far from inexperienced. It is, of course, altogether too early to offer any predictions in regard to the nine, but it is safe to say that every effort towards success will be made by the individual members of the team, which, backed up by the good will and enthusiasm of the college, ought to go a long way towards the desired goal. The enthusiasm is sure to come, as any one who witnessed the wild celebrations of last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/8/1885 | See Source »

...candidates to do their best for themselves and for the college, Then if we win we can take some of the credit of victory to ourselves; if we lose, we can feel that we deserved to lose, that we were outplayed. There is no disgrace in defeat if every effort has been made to secure victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/8/1885 | See Source »

...programmes, a gong was sounded, and everyone sat still while the building, and the audience were photographed. Storrow, '87, had his camera in the south west end of the gallery, and Mr. Tupper, Pach's operator, had his in the north west corner. The audience hardly realized that an effort was being made to photograph them, and did not sit very still, so the worth of the result is rather doubtful. Mr. Tupper took two and Mr. Storrow one picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gymnasium Sports. | 3/30/1885 | See Source »

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