Word: effort
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...published together, and three of the huge pages of this paper are filled with a biographical notice of a fictitious Amherst trustee, - a notice which is apparently intended to be of a humorous character. The Exchanges are written with a good deal of care, and with a most elaborate effort at chatty easiness of style. Indeed, the effort is so elaborate that the chatty easiness is lost, and the result of the writer's labors by no means repays the pains which he has bestowed upon them...
...finances of the Reading-Room are in a promising state, and an effort is now being forwarded by the open handed few to pay off the debt for gas, that former years bequeathed to us. Those who are most interested in the present stability and future success of the Reading-Room will find the Directors more than willing to receive their subscriptions towards paying off this debt...
...swift current had separated them, and he looked in vain for Cameron to rise. Hooker, meanwhile, also unable to swim, succeeded in turning over the shell, by which he kept himself above water until even this frail support began to sink under him, and with a desperate effort, he seized a boat which a boy by the name of O'Brien had put to the assistance of the drowning men. Sherman, who was able to swim, also climbed into the boat, and was taken ashore...
...that the Annuals have begun, the College year is practically over as far as athletic sports are concerned; for the body, on whose development especial care has been bestowed for many months, is now often almost entirely neglected in the eager effort to review a year's work in a few days. It does not seem out of place, therefore, to look back on the history of those associations which have been founded among us with the design of promoting physical development, in order to see how many of their early promises they have redeemed...
...time we thought that letter quite a creditable effort. All future attempts of the kind will be marked "Not serious...