Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...disgrace in being defeated when you have done your best-but the knowledge that had it not been for a few "slackers" the showing of the track team this season might have been much different, is a disgrace, and one that every member of the University should make an effort to wipe out next year...
...districts which they represent, and, secondly, to interest and aid prospective members of the University. Toward making Harvard a thoroughly-representative institution and as one of the most convenient means of disseminating information in regard to the University, these clubs have an important role to play, and every effort should be made to keep them alive...
...their own language will be disposed to grumble because the course will not count towards a degree. Yet, when the few hours' work required is past, and a man finds that to his great surprise he can remember to use a plural verb with a plural subject the actual effort will be forgotten. One of the greatest assets for a young man entering business is the ability to write letters in a clear, simple style without unnecessary words and phrases. Therefore this course should be regarded as a temporary hospital for men disabled in English. Hard work on the part...
Many articles have appeared during the past year revealing the shocking ignorance of college men concerning the progress of the great war. A recent issue of the Independent Magazine makes this statement: "We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it." Between the conflicting fires of an English official communication, a Berlin official report, and a French communique, it takes more than an intelligent person to read the news of a single engagement and understand which forces gained the advantage. After a series of attempts to untangle the contradictory statements...
...they have been scolded in many a chapel talk and editorial for neglect of the papers. To us, the results of this quiz seem to show that they are guilty of something far less excusable. We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it. Such diligence and complete absorption in the required studies as to prevent a student from looking at a daily, or even a weekly, would indeed be unwise, but not discouraging. But to think that students, of all people, should read day by day the narrative...