Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college had supposed that the possibility that the freshman nine could defeat Yale in the freshman series would inspire the team to make an honest, if a late endeavor, to play ball. But this supposition has proved baseless. The present freshman nine is, without exception, the least determined of any of the prominent college teams. The captain, in loyalty to his class, ought to require that every man under him should do his utmost to further the efficiency of his team, or at once withdraw from it. It is a disgrace to the crimson that it is worn...
Richards, '87, does not get reach enough. He drops his head and shoulders on the full reach in his endeavor to get a longer one. After the stroke is finished he does not start on his recover quite soon enough, and in getting his oar away from his body he pushes his body back. He does not get his oar into the water as soon as he is on the full reach. When the crew spurts he does not swing back enough, but gets jerky...
...their energies are bent towards perfecting themselves in that portion of the game. "Doing the net act" is the popular means to this end. They have a net about eight feet high, stretched across a portion of the ball field, and before this the entire nine stand and endeavor to "block" the curved balls that their fellow collegians put in to them. Many men can be found in college, outside the regular team, who have very good curves and shoots, and it is to the practice received in this way that the Harvard boys attribute all the hard-bitting quarries...
After apologizing for his inexperience in public speaking, Mr. Bronson Howard entered upon a very interesting lecture, holding the attention of the large audience in Sanders for an hour and a half last evening. He declared his inability to tell what Dramatic Art was, but he would endeavor to show how the dramatist was obliged to obey its laws in the construction of a play. To illustrate this he gave the "Autobiography of a Play." an account of the original plot of the "Banker's Daughter," and a description of the later alterations, and showed how these alterations were brought...
...world, and of the man who has been forced to abandon the profession and step down into the lower rank of a merchant. All these statements cannot fail to impress themselves upon the student's mind; he will carry the thoughts of the speaker home with him and will endeavor, as far as he sees fit, to heed his advice. And so it is in all the other lectures the student attends. They are all composed of the element thoughts and considerations of great thinking men who talk to the student in the hopes that he may learn...