Word: exertion
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...would be an insult to the Republicans or a violation of the college practice, the temptation to engage with the Law School myrmidons would not dissuade us from doing what is right. It is too late to bring this matter up in class meeting, but, if this communication can exert any influence, I hope the class will refuse to carry in the procession the transparency which they have ordered...
...article of yesterday explained, is a new one and has been kept in the very best of order. The number of entries and the character of the track lead one to expect not only well contested races but some very fast time. Every man to win will have to exert himself to the utmost; and, on a fine track, such exertions ought to succeed in lowering some of the records. The bicycle race also promises well, as more colleges than ever are to send men. As the present college record is by no means fast, this record will probably...
...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...