Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...visiting committee appointed by the Board of Overseers to solicit donations for the building fund has turned over to the treasurer of Harvard College approximately $154,000. This is about $4,000 more than it was originally planned to raise, and no effort has been recently made to increase the amount as it is not definitely known whether additional funds will be needed...
...effort is being made to arrange an intercollegiate contest with the camera clubs of Yale and Pennsylvania in April...
...expressed in the centre page is of well tried excellence, but careless drawing makes it less effective than usual. Doubtless the picture of the Radcliffe basketball team is much exaggerated, but even if not, it shows a certain lack of gallantry. The editorials are seasonable and show much commendable effort...
...have appointed a committee with the primary object of seeking out the skill and experience and intelligence existing in Harvard football men and of directing it on the University team so that we can make at least an intelligent effort towards getting victory every year. This committee will operate in an advisory capacity rather than in an executive one. It will lay out a system and direct the policy, but will not undertake to interfere with the coach or the coaching system, which will remain substantially as in the past...
...speak frankly, the December number of the Monthly, in spite of plenty of good sense and sound judgment, does not seem a presage of a new period of inspiration. Its interest in things literary is strong, its effort to achieve literature is earnest and not unsuccessful: but it cannot be said to be stirring...