Word: effort
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most ambitious poetical effort we have met with this week, is an ode to the "Concord River," in the Tuftonian. The general effect is good, though marred somewhat by bad epithets and one or two unnecessary inversions. We would like to know what color a "blushing violet" is, and it seems as if the wrong deity had the adjective in the line...
...only false but preposterously absurd. We should like to inform the Watchman: 1st, that the students of Harvard College have not formed a considerable part of the audiences at the performances of the "Black Crook," as will readily be seen from the fact that it would require great effort on the part of one thousand students to form a "considerable part of the audience," for two weeks, in a theatre that holds about twenty-five hundred persons; 2d, that the basis of fact, which the writer's imagination has distorted into the above statement, is that about one hundred Freshmen...
...been coaching them during the past two weeks, and his work has had a noticeable effect; but they have still much hard work to do before they can attain the perfect form of the crew of '78. Their present bad form is owing to no lack of conscientious effort, but to the fact that they were unable to be upon the river this spring as early as usual. It is well known, however, how much a crew improves by the practice of the last few weeks before the race, and we shall expect to witness a better race even than...
...student who had been taking his meals for a week at the Hall at the expense of the Association shows, however, that there are some among us who will stoop to acts of meanness; and we can only warn all to be on their guard, and to make every effort to discover the offenders...
...hope, too, that members will induce their friends to come to the sports, and help the sale of the tickets; for the Association has spared no expense in preparing for these meetings, and is much in need of money. Certainly, the management cannot be too highly praised for the effort it has made, and for the inducements it holds out to contestants this year; and now the ultimate success of the Association depends on the way in which men give their support by entering, and by bringing their friends...