Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleased to be able to announce that our repeated efforts to make clear to the corporation the necessity of lighting the library during the evening have received some attention. We are informed that it is intended to tear down and rebuild the entire interior of Gore Hall some time in the near future; when this is done provision will be made for lighting the hall. This announcement is extremely indefinite and hardly affords occasion for congratulation; but, nevertheless, it shows that those in authority have begun to feel the inconvenience to which the whole body of students is daily...
...other half back did very little good work and allowed Ames and Channing to make all the large gains. Poe, the captain, at quarter back was indefatigable. He assisted the rushers and backs at every point, making holes for them and pushing them along by his own individual effort, and never failed to use his men to the best advantage. In the rush line Cowan did by far the best work. His weight was of inestimable advantage to him in rushing and bunting through the line. Donnelly played well at end rush before he got put off for foul play...
...with Princeton. From all we can learn the Princeton team is very strong, stronger, in fact, than Yale; but this simply means that our eleven will work the harder. We must win-not at any cost, as seems to be the motto of a certain college-but by every effort within our power as honorable men. There is no need for us to urge our eleven to do their utmost; their energy and faithfulness thus far are sufficient evidence of their conscientious work today. It is to the students, rather than to the eleven that we make our appeal...
...number of New York alumni are making an effort to have the Yale-Princeton game played at Washington Park, Brooklyn, instead of at the Berkeley Oval, New York...
...sentiment expressed in the first part of the Princeton letter published today is obviously so unfair as to need little comment, and yet it may be well for us to state the case as it actually is. There is now a genuine and laudable effort making to exclude professionalism from college athletics. As a first step in this movement it has seemed necessary that all the colleges in the league be required to furnish certificates that the members of their athletic teams are bona fide members of their college. In accordance with this rule Harvard has sent to Princeton...