Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...columns of the paper and especially recognition of its purposes. The Princetonian has gone so far as early in the year to supply Princeton professors and instructors with stamped envelopes, in which they were to mail any notices and information they might desire to publish to the college. The effort was decidedly a commendable one, and deserved to succeed. We believe, however, that the success was only partial...
...ordinary run of newspaper illustrations has but little interest for college readers - or any other readers, for that matter - but the great effort of Boston's leading art journal, the Globe, yesterday morning, was received with all due appreciation by the undergraduates of Harvard, and must have created quite a sensation in the outside world. Perhaps the favor with which this venture was received may be shown best by the fact that over 500 extra copies of the "Globe" were sold yesterday in Cambridge. But really, this article opens up quite a field for enterprise. It could easily be "worked...
...conducted rapidly and systematically, so that it can hardly be wearisome. Let every man, who cares for the interests of his crew, attend. Loyalty to Harvard boating should be enough to fill the gymnasium. The expense of attendance at the meeting is small; the crew debt is large. Every effort to pay that debt is worthy, and should be enthusiastically supported...
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Avoid being an amateur. The essential thing is the habit of thinking and working. There is no pleasure in vacation unless work comes before and after it. Begin to acquire the habit of work, and the effort to keep it lessens. Let the man of leisure remember the debt he owes to the public for its protection of himself and his property. He can pay this debt by working in public undertakings and charities where no pay can be given. But there is room nowhere for the dabbler...
There will be an effort to have a reunion dinner of the O. K. this year...