Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to preserve our intercollegiate athletics a petition has been drawn up to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in an effort to point out to that body that partial abolition or curtailment of intercollegiate athletics is not a remedy for athletic distraction, and offering a substitute remedy which promises to be far more effective...
...Hitherto, the proposals for the elimination of the objectionable elements in athletics have been in the shape of regulations by the supervising bodies of the University, and little real effort has been made to apply a remedy from the inside. The realization that the conduct of athletics can and ought to be improved has, we think, been lately brought home to the College as a whole, and we believe that the time has come when the undergraduates are ready to deal with the problem alone, and solve it in a more permanent way than can be done by the enforcement...
...CRIMSON'S effort to raise a Harvard fund for the relief of the Chelsea sufferers has been supplemented by the Phillips Brooks House Association, which will today canvass the University for clothing, to be distributed to the many people who escaped from their homes destitute and penniless. Men who have not seen fit to contribute money to the Harvard fund may be willing and able to help the cause by handling over to the collectors any articles of old clothing that, if sold, will bring but a few dollars, and if kept, will only litter up the closets. Here...
...much to be done, so many strong, clean, trained hands needed to do it. But it must be remembered that present day public life means sacrifice and it is battle from beginning to end. Each victory means a contest farther on, but after all there is no effort so much worth while as for this national republic of free and righteous...
...Faculty, therefore, we must frame our arguments, in an effort to maintain the present status of our major sports and at the same time to preserve the minor ones. As a last resort it is necessary to show that the proper move is against real athletic abuses, and not against the extent of participation...