Word: effort
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...articles alluded to confine themselves almost entirely to complaints about the music here. One writer gave as his reason for the lack of good music among us, the fact that we were shamefully lacking in energy, not merely in musical matters, but in everything that requires any effort whatever. It is the purpose of this article to ask - in no spirit of fault-finding, however - whether we must not consider the class of songs sung by the Glee Club in some degree accountable for the failure of that Club to give general satisfaction...
...Blackheathen comes to us in an enlarged form, and contains a little more of literary effort, and a little less foot-ball and cricket news, than we find in most of the English school-papers. There is a very spirited prize poem on the Maid of Orleans; but whether it sounds more like the "Lays of Ancient Rome," or the "Lays of the Scottish Cavalier," is an open question...
...glad to see, by the President's Report, that an effort is being made to increase the advantages of a post-graduate course. Many students feel a desire to spend a year or two in study here after they have finished their college course, and to give their time either to studies they have been unable to pursue before, or to some subject which they make a specialty. To the former class the college electives offer a good field for work, and they can push their studies in whatever direction they choose; but to the latter there is presented...
...Library. We don't know whether it is meant as an expression of the Faculty's sympathies in the Turco-Russian war, or as an open defiance of the gentleman who lately accused the Library of wasting its substance on "massive tomes of recondite lore, in which a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science and religion...
...massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion," the writer may possibly know what he means, but I confess I have not the least idea...