Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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First-That more than a year ago the faculty, by a unanimous vote, united with the authorities of Harvard College in an effort to correct existing evils in these intercollegiate contests. In this they were not sustained by the other colleges interested...
...immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study were recited to the late Joseph Back-minister, who was at that time a tutor in the academy. Here he was first called upon to "speak in public on the stage," and the effort was a complete failure; for the moment he began he became embarrassed and burst into tears. His antipathy to public declamation was unsurmountable; and in bearing testimony to this fact, he once uttered the following words: "I believe I made tolerable progress in most branches which I attended to while...
...from this time on, college journalism grew with amazing rapidity. If today every paper, which has ever been published by students in our American colleges, were in existence, the number would astonish the most credulous. But the law of Malthus operates just as effectively in the domain of literary effort, as it does in the material world about us; there has always been a tendency for college papers to increase faster than the means of subsistence-financial difficulties have brought their careers to a close, often with considerable loss to the editors...
...such a crisis, the gentlemen in whom this trust has been placed, calmly sit in their rooms and quietly let things take their course, or in other words, they let other men fight their battles for them. At the conference last Monday night, a time at which every effort should have been made for the retention of foot ball, not a single director or officer of the association was present, and of the members of the eleven, only three, including the captain, attended the meeting. These are the men who have been selected to care for the interests of foot...
...enter the Hall even, the great underlying evil, which is the aggressive centre of the disastrous situation remains untouched. We cannot hope for success say by untiring, ceaseless and unsparing agitation. The library at present offers no inducements whatever to the students at large. It is only by an effort, usually, that a student can manage to spend an hour within its walls, and while the libraries of other colleges remain invitingly open during the evening hours of leisure, the library of Harvard University is closed, and as dark and silent as a tomb. Unsparing and vigorous should...