Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effort is being made by a few of the instructors in political economy, aided by some of the students, to enroll as many Massachusetts students as possible in the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League, the object of which is a reduction in the present tariff rates. While we do not intend to advocate either side of the great struggle which is going on between the tariff men and the revenue reformers, the subject certainly deserves to receive careful consideration at the hands of every student, if he has not already done so. The present canvass, which is, however, confined...
...wish to order balls. This plan might be followed here, but abetter plan would be to put the matter in the hands of the Co-operative Stociety. As the cost of the balls is one of the most expensive items in the game of tennis, any effort on the part of the tennis association to lessen this expense would be appreciate by the students...
...desired effect in bringing out more men as candidates for the inter-collegiate contests. The loss of several men who for years have been reasonably sure of winning one or more prizes for Harvard, will be a difficult one to overcome, and can be only met by a determined effort on the part of new men to do the best within their power...
...quite opportune. With such a large majority of the members of the board of overseers in favor of compulsory prayers, it will take some years, at least, to change the complexion of that body, even if all the new men each year should be advocates of "voluntary prayers." Every effort should be made to get the right men nominated, and then the nominees should be supported at the polls on Commencement Day. The younger graduates should wake up to the issue and remember the undergraduates who remain behind them attending prayers against their wills. It is the younger...
...recent meeting of the New York Harvard Club, it was resolved that an effort be made to have Latin cease to be the official language of the university, and to have the commencement programs and quinquennial catalogue printed in our own language. Much as we favor classical education, we believe that the change advocated by the Harvard Club is a wise one, at least as far as the quinquennial catalogue is concerned. The usefulness of that valuable work would be much increased if it were printed in a language in which a few of us are moderately versed...