Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...history that an opera has been presented in Sanders Theatre. The performance has been proffered in appreciation of the interest that students and teachers in the University have taken in the opera performances this season and the support they have lent and what the desire to encourage the present effort in the University toward still livelier interest and closer relations...
...House, and other parts of the University during the afternoon. The work of the Phillips Brooks House Association will be outlined to the delegates by Arthur Beane '11, in Peabody Hall at 2.30 o'clock. All officers of the Phillips Brooks House Association are urged to make a special effort to help in the entertainment of the visiting delegates...
...remark commonly attributed to President Kirkland of Harvard College that the only use of statistics was in refuting other statistics suggests itself. But, more seriously considered, it seems likely that the law school stood with many boys prepared in private schools for the first thoroughly earnest intellectual effort. Not needing the monetary scholarships at college, they were satisfied with 'gentlemen's marks'; but, aroused by the call of professional ambition in the law school, they had thrown themselves into the work with enthusiasm...
...surely be held for making a mountain of a mole-hill and quibbling over a point which was after all a matter of opinion. We cannot close our eyes, however, to the deduction that any College student might naturally draw from the Herald's conclusion, i.e. that earnest intellectual effort in College has after all little effect upon intellectual achievement in the Law School, and that if a man only makes up his mind to work hard i the Law School, it makes little difference whether he has worked hard, or not at all, in College. This is an opinion...
...Harvard is to have a "system" of Senior advisers, let it be at least systematized sufficiently to endure for more than a few days in September. We should have in control of the system a committee who will utilize the good intentions wasted in half-hearted effort. Such a committee could give intelligent supervision without undue officiousness; and could at the same time act as an effective stimulus to a worthy movement which manifestly needs vitalization...