Word: exert
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...admiration and emulation of his inferiors, no matter how much the jealousy of those inferiors may lead them to decry him. He is a fitting head for the great social body beneath him; and if his fortune will permit him to abstain from work, - by work I mean daily exertion whose ultimate object is bread-making, - he may be far more useful to the world than if his tastes and inclinations were fettered by business. But he must never be idle. Noblesse oblige. He must constantly exert himself to maintain with dignity the position to which he lays claim...
...only those men in the boat who are (to use his own words) "heart and soul in the crew," and he will endeavor to find five men in the University who have, beside the requisite amount of muscle, a sufficiently high idea of the trust confided to them to exert themselves to their utmost both before and during the race...
...account of the fall races at Harvard, and also the Treasurer's Report on the finances of the University Club. Harvard seems at last to have awakened to the fact that if she wishes to retain the high place among American colleges which is hers traditionally, she must exert herself to secure the best possible training for the men who row her boat...
...hurrying to evening Commons. I am afraid I have but feebly expressed my regard for my old room; but do not some of you feel the same liking for your temporary homes? I feel sure that I shall always like to return to mine, and I intend to exert my influence towards holding the Commencement meetings of our Class...
...only particular information on a given subject which students require of a professor; it is still more a contact of mind with mind, - a meeting on some neutral ground, where the experience and culture of a mature mind may exert its natural influence on the unformed intellect...