Word: effort
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...great effort had been made by the managers of the [Philadelphia] regatta to induce other American colleges to enter; but Harvard was so discouraged by the defeat Yale gave her at Springfield that her boating enthusiasm is entirely gone," etc. - New York Paper...
...Saturday, June 24, Trinity will make a final effort to appear. If they succeed, the game will be played on Jarvis...
...stroke; Bolan, 2; James, 3; Jacobs, 4; Thayer, 5; Morgan, bow. Immediately after the Springfield race these men will go to Saratoga and row in a six. The Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. have decided to try a paper boat in the Saratoga race, and an effort will be made to obtain subscriptions from graduates to pay for it. So much has been done by the undergraduates towards meeting the expenses of the crew this year, that it is earnestly hoped that the graduates will see the necessity of lending us some aid. In case it should...
...cannot do likewise. There are men who, having been favored with early advantages, find in their memories stores of information and experience which they know that others lack, and yet which they take no pains to conceal. There are men, in short, who pass their whole lives in the effort to make an invidious distinction between themselves and their fellows. These are the men whom we ought to despise. These are the men whom our duty orders us to tread beneath our feet. These are the men who, if things were as they should be, and if social distinctions were...
...books will hardly rival, in the department of belles-lettres, the poetry and prose of Harvard's Lowell, Emerson, and Holmes; but in solid, substantial intellectual food of every grade she can make a truly grand display. And why not grade the Yale collection according to the intellectual effort necessary to understand the writings of her great men? Let it begin with the spelling-book of Webster, over which the children of a past generation forgot their toys in their enthusiastic efforts to master the rudiments of English orthography; let it ascend through the grade of text-books...