Word: exertion
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...bequest of Mrs. James T. Fields gives Widener Library twenty-five of the more important volumes from the 'Shelf of Old Books' which she described so delightfully in her essays published under that title in 1894. In their new home they can never exert the charm --of which they were after all but a part of the frame--that made Mrs. Fields's home for a third of a century the most-sought literary mecca for those who knew their way about Boston. They will, however, find some old and many new friends on the securer shelves of the library...
...three of the four games they played. The first game was with St. Paul's School, at the St. Nicholas Rink in New York on December 22, and resulted in a victory for the collegians by the score of 6 to 3. The Princeton players did not appear to exert themselves in the first half, at the end of which St. Paul's led, 2 to 1. It was not until the second period was well advanced that the Tigers were able to break up the combination play of the schoolboys, but when they struck their gait they scored...
Brown defeated Vermont 46 to 0 in a game which showed no brilliant playing. Vermont was decidedly inferior and the Brunonians were not called upon to exert themselves. Pollard, at halfback, Andrews, and Purdy were the stars. The game was won chiefly on straight football though a few successful lateral passes were executed...
...river, and the soccer squad kicked a ball among the ice sheets and mud puddles of Soldiers Field for the sake of being out-of-doors. Today the fielding candidates for the nine don the glove, and the lacrosse men assume the stick. Tomorrow, figuratively speaking, others will exert themselves in track and football...
...system proposed coincides well with the track policy in force here. It is to be expected that such a policy will continue and if, as we believe, the principle underlying, group competition is valid the forthcoming events should both confirm out position and exert a wholesome influence over the college athletics in general...