Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five of her best men will appear in her boat, and we may be sure that they will put forth a great final effort for victory. To meet this we must not rely altogether on our superiority in style of stroke and in management. Not only must the eight exert themselves to the utmost, but it devolves upon every member of the university to do his best in supporting the crew, so that next June we may again see Harvard cross the finish line well ahead of her opponent...
...refinement or delicacy of feeling could have witnessed the rude and very ungentlemanly conduct of certain members of the section Friday without visiting upon it the severest condemnation. I trust that a little of that sense of right which is, presumably, directed against a rival eleven, will exert itself actively in discouraging a repetition of the present instance...
...serve a valuable purpose in keeping alive the interest in physical condition without which the 'well-rounded man' will, under any system of education, be an impossibility. They have done much to create and foster the admiration for health and vigor without which college men, in our time, cannot exert much influence in the world, no matter how great their culture may be. The days are gone by when mere learning made an idol of the possessor. Culture in our time needs to have a man in good 'condition' behind it to command popular respect. The grandeur of the 'college...
Yale pretends to fear that she has been deceived in underestimating the strength of the Princeton and Harvard foot-ball teams. The News says: "A letter from a Harvard man says that their team did not exert themselves at all with the Techs. for fear that Yale would get too correct an estimate of their strength. In the newspaper reports of their games they are careful to allow few complimentary remarks to steal in. Yet all this while they are working as they never worked before; they are straining every fibre of strength that the college can boast, and when...
...correspondent of the Boston Traveller lifts up his voice and cries out against the tendency he thinks he observes among the officers of Harvard College "to exert a controlling influence in politics." "It may be questioned," he says, "whether this inclination of those connected with Harvard College to exert a controlling influence in politics may not inure to the benefit of General Butler, and give him many votes. He did not graduate at Harvard, was not born on Beacon street, and does not own a lot in Mt. Auburn; but the story goes that 'he is a brick and made...