Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their instructors, hoping for some system, less trying and fairer than the present, the benefits of which may be reaped, if not by themselves, at least by those who are to come after them. But, if they do not now get the reform they want, they should at least endeavor, when they become, no longer students, but instructors, to give the others what they did not enjoy themselves. The evil is a growing one; but we, sincerely believers in the slow, but as least sure, advancement of the world in all its interests, are confident that some day this great...
...courts is also a good one. When we get the courts we shall want to keep them and not have them used up after the wear and tear of a season. The expense of keeping them in order and making them will be slight. The association should endeavor to keep the fees as small as possible; but even with the rates named in their announcement a man can play an average of two or three afternoons a week throughout the long season at an expense of two or three dollars...
...Boston Herald of yesterday says "The Yale College team will make every endeavor to retain the college championship. Dates have already been arranged with the New Yorks, Metropolitans, Athletics, Philadelphias and Washingtons, and correspondence is going on for a game with the Bostons...
...dogs of the treasury" wish to save an additional penny by not using gas in the chapel on very dark days, when it is needed. The pulpit alone is lighted, while the poor beings below and above stand in the dim, sacred light of the painted windows and vainly endeavor to make out through the gloom the big letters of the psalm books. Much good eyesight is being uselessly squandered in these rash attempts to follow the service, while the "powers that be" calmly look on at the destruction...
...which has just closed, but which already seems a long way in the past. To many of us, in fact we fear to a great majority, such a glance will give us cause to rejoice that there are still a few weeks before the examinations in which we can endeavor to make up for the time which has not been devoted to our studies. The new year brings little gladness to the students' hearts, except by anticipation. This is for us the busiest time of the year. Returning from a pleasant vacation, we are plunged at once into the trials...