Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...satisfactory And yet the college, if we may judge from the unprecedented size of the present freshman class, has before it as bright prospects as the management could desire. While some gloomy predictions have been made by several of the alumni, we do not see that the matter should exert undue influence upon the friends of the college. A college of such reputation and usefulness as Yale cannot but recover from any slight pecuniary disabilities...
...sport and men enough who are interested in the game could easily be found to lend their efforts to its success. The record made in this sport during last season should not be allowed to be counteracted by a series of defeats this year. The lacrosse management should exert their utmost endeavors to revive in the game an enthusiasm which shall equal that taken in foot-ball during the past year...
...extended trip to Siberia. This rustication is not preceded by a warning or a summons. U. 5 would have no terrors for a Russian. On the whole, their student life is as far behind the German as the latter is behind the English or American. The universities, however, exert a powerful influence on national thought and life...
...peoples minds that Harvard college was not only a training school for the mental qualities of its students, but also for their religious morals? "Any college that gives a preference for any one belief in religion and enforces such a belief on its members, must be narrow and must exert a bad influence over all who come under its sway." This has been said more than once by people who pride themselves on being well read and posted on educational subjects. It is extremely difficult to trace to its source any such report, and yet there must be some foundation...
...hoped that the literary supplement of the CRIMSON will exert the same influence as the old magazines did, and that if there be talent in the college now such as there was in those days, it will help in bringing...