Word: effort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...score was perfectly disgraceful. Occasionally Wood would take to tossing the ball easily over the plate. Then the Yale men would bat him all over the field. Too much censure cannot be given to him for the part he played in the game. If he had made the slightest effort, the Harvard men present would have supported him. As it was they could not be expected to. The Harvard freshman captain, when he found out that the game must be played should have had his men play their best, even though defeat were certain. Yale got six runs...
...present freshman class nine has certainly distinguished itself in a way disgraceful to the college. The men on the nine were only obeying orders when making no effort to play, and so the blame is not greatly to be given to them. The game was called at the end of the sixth inning on account of the pouring rain. The score...
Cornell is making an effort to organize a football league with Lehigh and Lafayette for next year...
...select the leading words, and from them to construct a mnemonic chain. The idea of mnemonic series is not a new one, and at first glance it seems doubtful whether this method will prove of more service than the others that have been suggested. To most minds the effort required to memorize a mnemonic chain is as great as that in learning the original...
PIERIAN SODALITY.- The annual dinner of the society will be observed Monday, May 27th, at 7.30 p. m., at the Boston Tavern. Let every man make a violent effort to be present. Dress suits...