Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purchaser of a season ticket insures a certain amount of patronage to the base-ball interest, but he naturally expects some inducement to be offered in return. $3.50 last year gave admittance to more games than $5.00 will this. Either he present price should be lowered, or an endeavor should be made to increase considerably the number of games. Unless one of these measures be adopted, we fear that the base-ball management will find their sales of season tickets remarkably small, a thing which neither they nor we desire...
...been especially engaged to take charge of the courts in future, and will keep them all well rolled and marked out. His first duties will be in regard to the old courts, which are not to be remade until the summer. These, by constant rolling, he will endeavor to put in fair condition. For these courts, players must provide both poles and nets as formerly, and the rule in regard to tennis shoes will here be strictly enforced as also on the new courts...
These thoughts necessarily lead us to two conclusions,- first, that students should endeavor to master the art of note-taking, and at the same time, be constant in using it; and second, that colleges should afford the students some aid, giving, if necessary, some instruction in note-taking. Stenography is a great aid to thorough note-taking; and if the colleges would only offer some instruction in stenography no one can estimate of what value it would be to the students...
...ready wit,-of all those things, indeed, for which we are not responsible; but no one is ever proud of trying hard. We may decree as much as we like that trying hard is the sum total of virtue, yet no one will ever want a prize for faithful endeavor. To be able to do easily what other people do with difficulty, or what they cannot do at all, that is what we are proud of and what we admire...
Prof. Emerton will discuss the methods of study before the Historical Society this evening. It is rumored that Tufts will endeavor to send contestants to Mott Haven this spring. Lectures by students, in preparation for the examinations, were extremely well attended this year...