Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These extension courses are the results of an effort on the part of the Cambridge Public School Association, in co-operation with Mayor Quinn, to bring the teachers and pupils together and thus to avoid the present waste of time brought about by the general closing of public schools during the coal crisis. Several thousand children in Cambridge below the eighth grade have been enjoying an enforced vacation during the past two weeks because there is no coal to heat their school buildings...
...regime at Yale has probably given its recall to the four-mile race. Recess of a mile, two, or possibly three miles are now favored. No cut will be made in the New Haven squad this spring, but on the contrary every effort will be made to increase the number of oarsmen as the season progresses...
Prussia and the Allies are not bled white, and the offensive which she has so highly advertised is going to be a tremendous effort which will need all the power that can be mustered in order to hold the line. But after it is over we may feel assured that the War Lord and his staff will still be forced to eat their meals at Potsdam and not Versailles...
...schools scored. Mr. Hack has not been yellow in giving his opinions. In spite of his severe charges, however, he is hopeful. "Freedom and self-control must be won by each man for himself;. . . . . hereafter the chief emphasis will be placed upon learning and not upon instruction, upon the effort of the student to acquire and to understand and not upon the ways and means by which facts are presented...
...reserve'--a sort of semirepose, after a month of hot work and strain, too. It is not that we sweat and slave greatly, but there somehow seems to be a nervous effort and tightening in driving under fire which takes it out of one physically. The result is that after our 'spells' of 24 or 48 hours we sink into lethargic repose until the next call. The days seem all alike--except that we are served 'chocolat' instead of black, sugarless coffee on Sunday mornings--and they slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while...