Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...formation of a state undergraduate club would undoubtedly, in a few years, exert a perceptible effect upon this increase, and would ably second the efforts of the home association...
...moreover, the faculty of every college having a system of athletics would exert a sympathetic as well as a judicious oversight of the students interested in the system, they would find the young men quite willing to listen to friendly suggestions...
...choice of electives. Disinclination to hard work, ambition for collegiate honors, pecuniary dependence on high rank-each of these considerations closes to him certain electives and some whole branches of study. These motives, which ought not to be felt at all in shaping the students course, probably exert a larger influence than all others. He is drawn to studies which in themselves have no attraction for him, and repelled from studies in which he would take a genuine interest. The secret of the cure for this evil seems to be in the fact that it is the students who determine...
...deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead of delivering the ball to the batter in an honest, straightforward way, that the latter may exert his strength to the best advantage in knocking it, now uses every effort to deceive him by curving-I think that is the word-the ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill. I tell you it is time to call halt! when...
...students of the college proper, one-fifth of whom now come from that part of the country. The number of graduates of the university who settle in the Middle and Western States has been rapidly increasing of late, many of them soon filling places of trust and influence. They exert themselves to improve the preparatory schools in their vicinity, or to found new ones; and by example and precept they suggest to young men that it is expedient to get thorough training for professional or active life. Since about 300 young men are now graduated yearly at the university...