Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tickets in a package. Last year the class day committee of '82 in their anxiety to keep the yard free from outsiders and keep the tickets out of the hands of speculators privately bought up all tickets which they could find on sale. In spite of their endeavor, however, they were unable to gain possession of all the tickets. The class day committee of '83 have announced that they will repurchase at fair rates any tickets which the members of the senior class cannot use. To keep down the number of such cases as much as possible the committee first...
...fathers divorced the church and State, and may inquire if there is any reason why the property of that institution shall be exempted from taxataxation, which is so burdensome upon us, while they use the alms of the State, so bestowed upon them for educational purposes, in an endeavor to control the politics of the State...
...whole question of college athletics, which the action of Princeton-Harvard has raised, has proved too clearly the fatuity of any regulations which tend to suppress them to permit such regulations to be long in operation." It is not a fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base-ball for sport and professionals who make the game a means of earning their livelihood. Their object was to prevent as far as possible the entrance...
Although the team is to be congratulated upon its success last Saturday, still it should realize that its play is far from perfect, and it should endeavor to make great improvement before meeting Princeton's fine team on the 10th. Our goalkeeper is probably the best college player in his position, but he should be quicker in gaining and throwing the ball. The three first men on the defence, Davis, Rueter and Noble, play a very fine game, although they sometimes play too far from the goal. Of the fielders, Machado plays excellently; he catches and throws well...
...court provided a holder of the court does not wish to use it. Believing that the following rules will be a great improvement on the present lack of system and are as good as can at present be devised, the Tennis Association ask all tennis players to second their endeavor to introduce some system into the management of the tennis courts...