Word: effort
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best of the day. Both crews started at 36 to the minute, with Yale having a slight advantage, which was increased to almost a length by the time the half-mile flag was reached. On nearing the mile mark, where rough water was encountered, Harvard made her supreme effort, and soon after passing the mile flag went into the lead, rowing a clean 31 to Yale's desperate 34. Yale held on doggedly, but at the mile and one-half mark was a length and three-quarters behind. Harvard finished in 13 minutes, 14 seconds, three and one-half lengths...
...half mile flag the race was a gruelling one and very exciting, Harvard's stroke never varying from 33, while Yale's was being continually broken by vain spurts. Just before reaching the half-way mark before the Navy Yard, Yale made a supreme effort to cut down Harvard's lead, but it was her last. It was right here that Cutler proved himself to be a stroke up to every emergency, for without changing his pace in the slightest manner he allowed Yale's spurt to shorten the load about twenty feet, and then, as Yale's stroke...
...Lanigan opened the sixth with a clean hit to centre and Harvey's out, Logan to Jefferson, put him on second. Currier, however, hit a liner to Cushman from which a double play at second would have resulted but for the latter's poor head-work. Simons repeated his effort of the first inning by sending a fly to Murphy. After this inning Van Vleck retired from the box and went to right field in place of Corey, while Merritt pitched the three remaining innings. In the eighth, with one down, Hicks drew a pass and went to second...
...speakers were Mr. Clayton S. Cooper of New York, Mr. E. S. Latourette of Yale, Mr. E. C. Carter '00, Dean Fenn, and Mr. Eliot. At the International Conference at Columbus, Ohio, the Association was represented by three delegates from the undergraduates and two from the Faculty. Still another effort of the committee has been to co-operate with near-by churches, which offer courses in the study of the Bible...
...upon the success it meets with this year. The last concert was successful, but did not attract so much attention as it deserved; it is therefore to be hoped that all who can will leave their work for a few minutes this evening, thereby manifesting their appreciation of the effort the Glee Club is making, and ensuring permanence for the concerts...