Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...their list personally. If every member of the Reception Committee will cease to regard his appointment as an added burden, and will see in it the chance to accomplish much good, by a slight personal sacrifice, we feel sure that the results will more than justify the effort...
...discussion of the ministry, President Eliot first spoke of the great changes in that profession. The minister is no longer a performer of rites and ceremonials only, on which his power once lay. He must rest his reputation now on an exposition of the best and clearest literary effort of the best thinkers. Necessarily such an appeal can have little effect on the "less-thinking" part of the population, for whom ceremonial and vestment will always be attractive. In the Protestant Church, however, exhortation and counsel, will keep their place...
Although for the last two years the material has been good, both years the championship has been lost to Cornell by one point. This year every effort will be used to secure a good Canadian coach. The material this year is excellent and experienced, nine of the twelve men having played last year. They are: B. M. Vance '08, capt., P. B. Francis '08, C. L. Furbur '08, L. D. Cox '08, H. E. Porter '09, D. L. Cobb '09, A. H. Cochrane '09, D. S. S. Sheip '09, E. S. Currie '09. A game with the graduates on October...
...Advocate is glad to welcome, discuss and criticise any literary effort of a Harvard undergraduate. That it offers an encouraging and instructive field to the man who likes to dip pen in ink, is its only claim to usefulness...
...connection we are led to speak of the University band. This praise-worthy University organization is usually hurried forth on the eve of the Yale game to accompany the singing, and the lack of concerted practice generally results, either in the exhaustion of musicians and singers alike in an effort to keep together, or, when harmony is despaired of, in a total disregard of each other...