Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...broad improvement, however, which underlies all changes of detail, is, that without regard to the efficiency of those details, a determined effort has been made to put all members of the class upon a basis of equlity. In past years many Seniors have felt, rightly or wrongly, that they had little voice in the selection of their class day officers. Hence the unfortunately small attendance at the election meetings. This year there is certainly no foundation for such indifference, and if there is not a full vote polled today, the result will be most disappointing. For this chief purpose, several...
...decided effort is being made by a number of prominent Cambridge citizens to induce the West End Railroad to provide better accommodations for its passengers at the Harvard square transfer station. Although more passengers are transferred there daily than at almost any other point in the West End system, only one small room has been provided; and the constant overflow of passengers into the street which necessarily results is alike an inconvenience to passengers and a disturbance to traffic...
...Harvard speakers, though they have failed to reassert superiority over Yale 's steadily increasing strength in debating, have nevertheless done all that lay in their power to prepare themselves thoroughly and the College may feel confident that their effort was in no way discreditable...
...half the eligible list has been present. For this state of affairs then a remedy must be found if possible. Of course it is not to be expected that a thoroughly satisfactory system can be devised all at once, but there is the more reason for making a special effort to leave to '99 a system in advance...
...contest over a marshalship, for instance, to deprive the defeated candidate of all chance to be placed lower down on the list. This drawback, which seems an essential part of any system of secret ballot, should if possible be eliminated, and we urge most earnestly that every effort be made to remove such difficulties in the wisest possible manner...