Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every member of the crew. For the past three years Yale has had a phenomenally heavy and muscular crew. This is the last year in which five of her best men will appear in her boat, and we may be sure that they will put forth a great final effort for victory. To meet this we must not rely altogether on our superiority in style of stroke and in management. Not only must the eight exert themselves to the utmost, but it devolves upon every member of the university to do his best in supporting the crew, so that next...
This is even less palatable than much of the condemned matter, but we judge from its conclusion that it was the first effort of the fighting editor...
...effort is being made to establish a fixed salary for the services of the clerk of the United States Supreme Court. The perquisites of this officer last year under the existing system amounted...
...paper will contrast favorably in its tone with the ordinary political newspapers; and to point out what sort of journalists Harvard students make we need only point to such papers as the Boston Advertiser and The Nation, whose staffs are largely composed of Harvard men. It is the constant effort in college journals to show in their columns "fairness, and honesty, and courtesy, and calmness, and culture," and we think that they may well be imitated in this respect by many of the publications of their seniors...
...annual meeting of the stockholders of the Boston and Lowell Railroad was held yesterday. An effort was made to change the board of directors, but failed, and the old board was re elected by a large majority...