Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first heat of the 440-yard dash Taylor of Pennsylvania ran easily in third or fourth place until after the turn, when he quickened his pace and won with little effort. Coholan of Yale followed him closely and seems like a sure point-winner today...
...think that the Department of the Classics has realized its former shortcomings and is endeavoring, in its courses on literature, to substitute personal, historical, and literary interest for grammar and exegesis. In this effort much depends on the instructors, some of whom make even interesting courses dull, while others are most fortunate in the presentation of their subjects; nothing, for instance, could be more delightful than Professor Rand's exposition of Horace. We hope that men who wish to take the word-puzzle view of the classics will be relegated to courses of their own, and that all the courses...
...team for its victory over Yale on Saturday. And they are due not only to those members of the team who scored points in the meet, but to all the men whose hard work and good-natured rivalry made success possible. The victory was not brought about by the efforts of a few "stars," but by the combined effort of a well-balanced team. It was a fitting culmination of one of the most successful series of spring track meets we have had, and is especially gratifying because it was attained by gradual development and steady work...
...should wish to offer a single suggestion: that if their bearing toward the noisome student who infests their domain should ever by any cataclysmic regeneration of their nature approach a reasonable condescension as its limit, the approach should be very gradual, so that we might be able, by great effort, to adjust ourselves to such a revolutionary change in the life of the Harvard student as this regeneration would cause...
...Iliad, it rarely can disclose faults in the style; for there is nothing more striking about the poem than the uniformity of splendor in which it was written. In some manner a great Homeric style was built up which could be reproduced by the ordinary minstrel without effort, provided he had been trained along that line. In the works of these ancient minstrels we are brought face to face with something more august than mere individual genius...