Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boylston, these competitions were among the more important events in each college year. The ushers were always appointed from the Junior, by the First Marshal of the Senior Class, and served also as Junior ushers on Class Day. In fact there was not only general interest shown, but every effort was made to keep that interest alive; and, although it is not now realized by the undergraduates, many of the older inhabitants of Cambridge and Boston still watch for the notices of Boylston Prize Contests...
...final debate of '97-'98 is over, and Harvard debaters have brought a season of activity, of long and conscious effort, to a successful close...
...following committee was appointed by President Perkins in accordance with the vote of the meeting: Professor I. N. Hollis, Dr. A. C. Coolidge, C. C. Payson '98, C. C. Mann '99, Eliot Spalding 1900. No effort will be made toward an extended appeal for further funds, but all members of the University unable to attend the meeting last evening and willing to subscribe, are asked to leave their contributions with the bookkeeper in the CRIMSON office today...
...effacement, however necessary it may have seemed to him and to the coaches, can but add to the respect which is felt for him. An undergraduate seldom has a harder thing to do. Resignation before success, setting aside the chance so cagerly looked forward to, of making one more effort, is bitter. The college knows this, and it knows now better than ever before, what it owes to its e crew captain...
...well. Of the female characters E. L. Dudley 1900 as Martine gesticulated with good effect. The other parts were all acted remarkably well, there were almost none of the awkward lapses and patently forced gestures which usually mar amateur performances. Indeed the ease and continuity of action and the effort to avoid confusion on the stage led several times to an unnecessary restlessness that was tiring...