Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...added a new grievance. It is by little matters of this sort that we have obtained a reputation west of here not wholly deserved by any means-for being an inhospitable College. To prove that this is not the case, Faculty as well as undergraduates must now made every effort...
...Altrocchi's "Two Recent Novels of Religion" is a praiseworthy effort in criticism, and the conclusion reached by the writer is a sound one. One feels that he is not quite able to express fully the effect produced upon him by the perusal of "The Christian" and "The Saint"; that he strives to render clearly the differing value of the two books, and does not quite succeed; but one also feels that he is on the right road and that with more experience of life and a larger knowledge of literature-for which he plainly has love-he will...
...good, on the whole, although P.A.Hutchinson's "The Secret of the Sphinx"remains mysterious even after the revelations-but that may be the reader's fault. There is a striving after expression in the two pieces, "Love and Death" and "Love by the Sea," by J.H.Wheelock, but the effort was worth the making, and the result is not unsatisfactory. The "De Senectute" of W.Tinekom-Fernandez is distinetly good, and the "Fair Harvard" of B.A.Gould, while unequal, has a lift and a swing that take the attention and keep it. J.T.Addison's "Solomon's Ship" is suggestive of color and feeling...
...Harvard Debating Council has made arrangements for a series of four addresses by Harvard graduates, two of which will be delivered this evening at 8 o'clock in Upper Dane. Mr. A. S. Hayes '91 will speak on "Is Debating Worth the Effort?" and Mr. F. W. Dallinger '93 will discuss "The Art of Public Speaking...
...Newspaper work brings a man in contact with politics and politicians. It makes it easy for him to engage actually in politics if he wishes. It should convince him that the effort to influence politics for the benefit of people outside of office is more satisfactory than any work that can be done in office. Newspaper work of today is largely anonymous, and that fact is discouraging to those that would delight in the sound of their own names. But let a man select for his guiding thought the half cynical toast of old Teufelsdroch: Die Sacheder Armen in Gottes...