Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look on sheepishly stride up the long room and back again without saying or doing anything. At first there is an attempt at solemnity in their gait, but after the senseless exercise has been repeated two or three times, they look, as they dourness feel, thoroughly wretched; the effort to appear dignified, and the desire to get it over as soon as possible, combine to produce one of the most comical effects ever seen. The reason for this absurd performance is not far to seek. In ancient days any tradesman who had money owing him from an undergraduate, might arrest...
...customary during the second half year to have offered the students a course of voluntary evening readings. The selection of these readings is made with great care and through them every effort is made to interest the college in a line of work which will be entertaining and instructive to all, whatever may be the particular work of each one of the students. At one time it is a course of classics, at an other of modern languages. This year a course in Chaucer has been added. Notwithstanding the high merit of these evening readings the students have paid them...
...strong effort is being made to remove the Dartmouth medical college from Hanover to Concord. Persons interested in the attempt claim that the conditions upon which the professors of the New Hampshire medical institution became trustees of the state property at Hanover, have not been complied with, and that Attorney-General Tappan will call the attention of these men to the legislation concerning the subject. They also allege that there is quite a general feeling that the property should not be used by men who discriminate against women as medical students and that the General Court at its next session...
...almost a month to accomplish its work and as the faculty had already granted us one delay, this last request was naturally refused. We regret that inter-collegiate foot ball has been prohibited, and this regret is but intensified when we are informed that to all outward appearances, every effort was not made by the students' representatives...
...Athletic and Advisory Committees. As to the first we have no fear; as to the second-well, as we do not wish to risk our reputation as a prophet we had better be silent. In lacrosse, tennis and track athletics there can be but little doubt every effort will be made to better our records, and there seems to be great probability that these efforts will be successful. In short, although we can get but little comfort from the past, the future still seems to smile kindly upon us. How honest this kindness really...