Word: exertions
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...generally comes between leaving school and going to the University. The young fellow is left to his own resources for the first time. The freedom which he enjoys is much greater than that accorded to the students even in our most advanced and liberal colleges in America. The authorities exert absolutely no control over his actions or his studies-chief of all,-there are no parietal regulations. The result can more readily be imagined than described. Parents do not expect their sons to do anything but drink and loaf during the first year at the University-and their expectations...
...society represents a great principle in political economy, the success or failure of which must make a marked difference in the relations of human life. For this reason the welfare of Co-operation here is the welfare of Co-operation elsewhere, and success here cannot but exert some influence abroad...
...preacher said, is faith. This does not means, as we so often hear it said, a system of belief, but a loyalty to a person, a soldierly obedience to God. It is only through this loyalty and subordination that our lives receive that power which enables them to exert power over those we seek to command...
Harvard will lose only a few of her foot-ball team this year, and Princeton will lose only one man, so that we will have to exert ourselves to the utmost to retain our position at the head of the league. It is impossible to get much valuable practice during the first week of the term on account of the poor physical condition of the men, and it therefore becomes necessary to be some what easy in the work until they be come somewhat used to it. We would therefore suggest and urge the men who were on the team...
...grass in front of Matthews and listen to the songs of the Glee Club. The 'Varsity Club has sung in the yard a few times this spring, and the Freshman Club but once. It seems too bad that when enjoyment can be afforded to so many by the exertion of a few, those few are willing to exert themselves so seldom...