Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Baker, '86, will run an exhibition 3-8-mile race to-day at the freshman meeting, and endeavor to break the record in that event...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- Dear Sirs: I enclose a statement of the accounts of the treasurer of the University Foot-Ball Association for last year, which I beg that you will kindly publish. It was the endeavor of the treasurer to make the association self-supporting, i. e. to meet the expenses with receipts from gate money, and not to rely upon subscriptions; it was found impossible to do this wholly without subscriptions, but the treasurer collected of the amount subscribed only such a portion as should pull the association through the year free from debt. It did not seem necessary...
...game as played this year by the other colleges proved satisfactory, there was every chance of our playing next year; therefore the management deem it advisable that the game should be kept up through class games, which will be arranged later. A delegate has gone to New York to endeavor to secure Harvard's position in the league for another year...
...champion editorial writer in college, or champion literatus, is surely an honor worth striving for. If this offering of prizes is successful in awakening increased literary endeavor, it certainly merits commendation. That it will be commendable can hardly be doubted. Even $10 has been known to appeal to many a brain and pen. While it is pretty generally true that what is written for money is not of the best quality, yet it is also true that what would be written, for money without it is often not written at all. Then, too, in time the poorer motive of money...
...Hamilton Park, New Haven, on next Friday and Saturday. Hendee, American champion; Hamilton, college champion; Hunter, winner of the Pope cup; Wait, Parsons, Webber, and Allston are among the entries. The leading features of the first day will be the mile tandem race by Palmer and Thompson; Hendee's endeavor to beat the world's record for one mile, and the twenty mile Pope cup race. On the second day will be run the twenty five mile L. A. W. championship of America. Part of the proceeds will be devoted to the payment of the expenses of the Yale crew...