Word: effort
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were very glad to see so large an attendance at Professor Paine's recital last Friday evening. The hall was very nearly full, - a most encouraging fact when we consider how little effort was made to bring it to public notice. If the recital had been widely announced by posters so placed as to generally inform the students and the Cambridge public of its occurrence, we are confident that a much larger hall could have been easily filled. We will venture to say that even Sanders Theatre would not present many empty floor seats at a free recital given...
...exclusively for them. I know that it requires some generosity to give up a desirable room to persons who may be almost strangers, but it also requires much selfishness to refuse to do so. As a last act of courtesy to the graduating class, as an effort to preserve the pleasant features of a time-honored festival, and as a means of justifying the request for a similar favor in a later year, it seems fitting that under-class men should surrender their rooms for the day to Seniors. Most men have willingly done so, but there...
...HOLMES, in his interesting memoir of John Lothrop Motley, has given a glimpse of Motley's college career. Motley entered Harvard College in 1827, at the age of thirteen, and at the end of his Freshman year stood second or third in his class. He made no effort to maintain this rank, and soon neglected his college duties to such an extent that he was "rusticated," which expression Dr. Holmes finds it necessary to define as "sent away from college for a time...
...though you many an effort make...
...final fell to J. S. Voorhis, 18 feet, in 10 sec. When heats are run in 10 seconds we naturally look, for the champions on the scratch mark, but instead we find M. McFaul, a deaf mute of the Fanwood A. C., whose best effort for the year has been 10 1/2 sec., which was done on his own track and at the games of his own club, and who, away from home, has run no faster than 10 8/4 sec., is put on scratch in a100-yard handicap where three heats...