Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attempt was made to form a University Chorus, similar to those of the German universities. There was no definite program laid out and, as might be expected, so few men attended rehearsals that after a short time the scheme was abandoned. Nevertheless, the CRIMSON believes that if a serious effort were made by the undergraduates and members of the department of Music interested in singing, a University Chorus would not be an impossibility...
...acquitted itself on Saturday. Although beginning the season with a discouraging lack of experienced men and suffering many setbacks because of bad weather, the squad finally developed into a very strong and well-balanced team. The wide margin of victory on Saturday was the result of determined and united effort, and stands as a splendid tribute to Captain Withington and to every member of his team. To the coaches, also, great credit is due, for this year's team is one developed from inexperienced material. In the meet on Saturday, the Juniors alone won 50 points (17 more than...
Although bringing a confidence born of last year's unexpected victory and hopes based upon comparative performances, Dartmouth's track team realizes today that Harvard will bend every effort to win back what it lost last season. With no chance of over-confidence on either side, coupled with the importance each team attaches to victory this afternoon, the Dartmouth meet should afford one of the closest track contests ever seen in the Stadium...
...closing Mr. Woods pointed out a number of broad foundations on which he believed that a new social order might be based. By these effort should be made that every child might have an opportunity for an upbringing, physically and morally sound, there should be a vast extension of the co-operative spirit in industry, as well as a supervision of the greater part of all business by public authority...
...least, that the Corporation should recently have established its blanket-rule prohibiting the use of Harvard halls for "persistent propaganda on contentious subjects of contemporaneous political, social, or religious interests": indeed it would seem wise for the authorities to encourage, even to the point of artificially stimulating, every effort to create a lively interest in anything deeper than class elections and minor matters of athletic management. H. G. Byng, the writer of the essay, suggests an open forum similar to the Oxford Union. The suggestion is not so novel as he perhaps supposes, but it deserves the hearty approval...