Word: exertion
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...citing this instructor or that, - I rejoice equally with you in the discovery. But take each class, take each department, and try to point them out to me. No college in the country has conditions so favorable to the strong influence of an instructor's character, provided it exert itself at all, as Harvard. No longer can a professor make himself felt here by utterances ex cathedra; for, unless he has a "corner" on the subject, his elective may be abandoned. But for this very reason, his influence, wherever it is felt, will enter the more deeply; for there...
WHEN we come back in the fall the societies which now occupy rooms in the buildings will have changed their quarters. The much-abused "shed" will be in position beside the hospital, and the new rooms will be fitted up. This change cannot fail to exert an influence on the character of the societies themselves, and so upon the habits of the men who are members of the societies. The change, in our opinion, will be felt in one of two ways. Either the societies, released from the control which their position in the Yard has given the authorities over...
...principles as those laid down by Eastlake. But is this enough to reclaim us from the evil of our ways? Are there not many other besetting sins weighing us down that should be corrected, lest we "leave college self-esteemed oligarchs, with neither the power nor the inclination to exert a superior influence for good upon others...
Poor time is the result of want of training. If prizes were given only on condition that a certain minimum time is made, men would be forced to exert themselves and the distances would be covered in shorter time...
...only those men in the boat who are (to use his own words) "heart and soul in the crew," and he will endeavor to find five men in the University who have, beside the requisite amount of muscle, a sufficiently high idea of the trust confided to them to exert themselves to their utmost both before and during the race...