Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...altogether unlikely for financial and other reasons that the place of playing the Army game can be changed to West Point. This cancellation is unfortunate, as it comes at a time when most if not all of the stronger teams have completed their schedules but every effort will be made to fill the date with as strong a team as possible, as a try-out for the University eleven before the Princeton game...
...CRIMSON is glad to find that there are actually some students in this self-sufficient community with energy enough to start a new publication, especially when this new publication, especially when this new effort shows that literary ability still exists among the undergraduates and instructors. The genuine Magazine contains better fiction and as good verse as the College has been offered in a long time. It has the ear-marks of a successful literary paper. But the editors, who fail to make themselves known, have lowered their standard in the story entitled. "The New Romance" to a most unworthy level...
...Schenck was especially intimate with the undergraduate body, and spent much time and effort in earnest co-operation with them. As an undergraduate he had himself been president of the Advocate, and he was ever its staunch supporter throughout his connection with the University...
...fellow-men to concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard as a burden to get rid of, but in which he would discern an opportunity for important service,-and the book or article would be set aside, and the job that was immediately necessary performed...
...more famous masters of learning have sought it and failed. He was first and always our friend; kind, sympathetic, tolerant, never the teacher on a pedestal but always the helpful advisor. Mingling as one of us he pointed the way by his wider culture and greater experience to better effort and broader ideas. We knew him as infinitely patient in the classroom and in the little study in Gray's Hall, where he cheerfully devoted himself to the troubles we laid before him. He served Harvard with rare fidelity and devotion; it is a lifetime of generous service that...