Word: relax
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sustained effort must be made to obtain little by little the support which the old clubs have failed to secure. This must necessarily be a work of time. It will be a mistake to expect a large measure of success immediately. Above all, it will be a mistake to relax the effort in case it should not meet with immediate success. An important object of the change is to reach out beyond the narrow limits of the present debating set, and gradually attract men who are not now thought of as debaters...
...view of these facts it is evident that the friends of the movement cannot for a moment relax their efforts. As Mr. Richard Henry Dana pointed out in his recent address before the club there is great need for the young men of today to carry on the work of the older generatior, formerly led by George William Curtis, and now by Carl Schurz...
...subject. There is no doubt that Yale is making unusual efforts to beat Harvard this year in debating, the one event in which she has regularly been successful. This enthusiasm at Yale must be met by an equal enthusiasm here in Cambridge. We must not rest nor relax our training for a moment until we have won the final contest of the year...
...striking example of what may result from too loose organization among freshman teams. It is hard to make a body of men in the first year at college realize what real training means. There generally comes a point when after some particularly good game the men consciously or unconsciously relax their efforts without thinking of the strain and demands of the final contests. However, the series is ended and Ninety six's record is made. She has three more years to show her merits through her individual members on the 'varsity teams. We sincerely hope that there her success...