Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...victorious over Williams by the score of 46 to 6. Nothing but straight football was used by the victors, while the losing purple team tried many varieties of open play. A forward pass of the latter's netting 45 yards and a touchdown was, however, their only profitable effort in this line...
...Spanish students, the Summer and Bennett Prizes in political science, the Boott and Knight Prizes in musical composition. The very desirable Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for amateur poets, the Potter prizes in Comparative Literature,--these are some of the most important of the other rewards offered for intellectual effort. They are often overlooked, not only by the diffident or lazy, but by men who confine their competition to the Bowdoin Prizes. There are also prizes exclusively for Freshmen,--the Belknap in French and the Wilder in German...
...youths are emancipated from the rigid discipline of the school master, they cannot be made to take very seriously any studies which do not have a manifest bearing on their career in life. But if it be true that they cannot be led to work hard in an earnest effort to understand the knowledge slowly wrought out, and the civilization painfully achieved by man upon this planet, then our colleges do not deserve to survive and will certainly...
...lacks the sporting instinct and does become interested in ideas, he is apt to find that he has only drawn attention to his own precocity and won amused notice rather than respect. In spite of desire of instructors to get themselves over to the students, in spite of real effort to break down the 'class-consciousness' of teacher and student, the gulf between their attitudes is too fundamental to be easily bridged. Unless it is bridged, however, the undergraduate is left in a sort of Peter Pan condition, looking back to his schoolboy life and carrying along his schoolboy interests...
...smoker for candidates for the Board of the Monthly, which was to have been held tomorrow, has been postponed to Friday evening, October 8, at 8 o'clock. Professor G. P. Baker '87 will speak. Philip Lyttell, of the "New Republic" will not speak, but an effort will be made to fill his place. At this smoker, which will be held in the monthly sanctum in the Union, the work of the literary and business contests will be explained...