Word: exertion
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...being unobatrusive. There has been little publicity and much informality. Interested students have not been neglected, and at the same time there has been no open attempt to induce attendance. The result is that half a dozen modern poets have been able to speak informally without having to exert a popular appeal or to hold the attention of an audience...
...system of popular government can long endure unless, it is backed by genuine public opinion. My hope is to stimulate in the younger generation enough interest in public affairs to lead them to exert their influence in directing and crystallizing this all-powerful guiding force...
...Exert Self to Utmost
...will, when convinced that the effort is worth while, exert your-selves to the utmost. A member of an athletic team will play his heart out to win. You will burn the midnight oil feverishly to pass an examination. But the constant, daily toil is more exacting. You may temporarily lose sight of the incentive; you may be diverted by pleasanter things. Your first problem, then, and it is yours alone, is to convince yourselves that steady application is worth while...
Factors such as these exert a constant influence whether assisted by conscious governmental action or not. If prohibition has made any permanent contribution to the cause of temperance it has been in the indirect encouragement it lends this process through making liquor less accessible. But this end is also achieved by the English system of restricted licensing. When the situation is thus reduced to its fundamentals, it is hard to see that our "noble experiment" could not advantageously be replaced by one which would retain the nobility of purpose without the accompanying disruption of the whole life of the nation...