Word: effort
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many activities in which Professors were engaged have in frequent instances called for a continuance of effort after the suspension of hostilities. Research, food control, and labor problems have not permitted of hasty cessation...
...preventing a man from doing more than a certain amount of athletics, writing, managing, etc., he will be faced with the alternative of spending more time on his studies or of doing nothing. This method of attack seems to be putting the cart before the horse. There is no effort made to make the curriculum more attractive to the student or to foster in him a desire to learn more or to take a high rank. Not at all. He can either study or loaf but at all events we shall deny him the privilege of outside activities...
...game should mark the real beginning of the baseball season for the University team. There games have been played, but it is universally recognized that the results have been unworthy of the material and the coaching. The poor showing, however, has not been due to lack of effort, but rather to lack of individual and collective aggressiveness. No one has been guilty of indifference, but almost the whole nine has failed to show the spirit of a winning organization. The near-informal team of last spring, although painfully weak in ability and defeated all but once, played with a spirit...
...foregoing irrefutable torrent of natural history leads right down to the following fair proposition: Why not pretend that we possess that calm and bloodless self-control that the professors pretend to possess when faced with the crushing fact of spring? Why not? This vast effort may seem pointless. But if we make good our pretense as they often manage to make good theirs, yes, in the very Tace of spring, ours will be a great consummation, a true millenium. The barriers of June will be removed, and we will be in a position to say to our professor: "Verily...
...giving the farewell to the School on behalf of the University, President Lowell said: "This is rather a sad day for me. You are the last product of the effort of this University to help the government carry on the war for the last two years. The war has called for great efforts by everybody. Some of my friends have told me that they believe that there will be permanent benefit to the spirit of the country. History, however, shows that every great period of war has been followed by an age of materialism and selfishness. The Civil...