Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduate writing. "We come here with no experience whatever, and in this interval, when experience is at once lacking and inaccessible, we sit us down to write literature." In a man's Junior year "he overdraws his slender fund of college experiences. Next he 'goes stale,' and further effort as long as he stays in college is useless." This, howver, may not be generally accepted as the condition of the normal undergraduate writer...
...University of Pennsylvania has recently established a small hospital, with ten beds, where sick students can have every comfort and the best medical attention, for one dollar a day. An effort will be made to have these beds endowed, which will render them free of cost to students...
...life though ended so early and so sadly stands before us as a type to arouse ambition. It was that of a man whose pleasure it was to live among men and to unselfishly forward their interests; who considered nothing done unless well done, nothing won unless by steadfast effort...
...committee which is trying to raise funds sufficient to buy the land and make a park that the option will not be extended after March 1. This means that over $14,000 must be raised this month, if the plan is to be carried out. A special effort will be made in the next few days, as if the sum is not raised, "Elmwood" will be sold immediately for building lots, and the scheme will be made impossible in the future. The sum already subscribed is a little less than $21,000, and money has recently been coming in very...
...therefore who are interested in rowing are requested to join one of the squads. Every effort will be made to give them the best of instruction...