Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bussey Institute, and Professor Josiah D. Whitney writes at some length on the Museum of Natural History. The anonymous biographical sketch of Dr. Peabody is accompanied with his portrait. There is also an excellent picture of Sever Hall. and the six pages of "Notes" represent a great deal of effort...
...letters are as amusing as they are great. The special correspondent of the Herald declares that Yale has fourteen men in training for the crew, who practise constantly on the river and also in the gymnasium, there is much enthusiasm in the college, and a great and final effort will be made to outrow Harvard next June. The Yale correspondent of the World, on the other hand, asserts that only twelve men are candidates for the crew, practice is confined to the gymnasium and to running, the crew will not be on the river till March, and there is entire...
...costs a greater effort to concede even justice to our conquerors than to be magnanimous to our conquerors than to be magnanimous to our fallen foes. Xerxes would never hear any good of the Athenians; but the Black Prince waited upon King John at table. And I, if I had been victorious in my last encounter with my old enemies, might now play the Black Prince to the Examination System's King John. As it is - but who likes to sing of defeat...