Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examinations are harder, and the course of instruction is more complete and thorough and more distinctly graded than in any other university in the country. Beginning with anatomy, the course ends in the third and fourth years with more abstruse subjects. The fourth year is still voluntary, but an effort is being made to extend the regular course. The school and the faculty have now all they can do, and are doing all that the community can ask of them; and all that they are doing is directly in the line of raising the standard of medical education and educating...
...considered that Minister Lowell has made every effort consistent with diplomatic usage in regard to the suspects of American birth...
...prejudice or injustice, but if they look the matter sternly in the face they will perceive that there are disfiguring wrinkles that all the cosmetics of art cannot drive away. Human nature is human nature, and no human power can ever conquer it. It displays itself despite every effort to hide it beneath a flimsy veil that sentiment may weave. When the Golden Age again sheds its brightening beams upon mankind, when virtue again reigns supreme throughout the world, and when, what is most important, youth ceases to be youth and loses all the characteristics of impulsiveness and fire that...
...disputes of last fall. Not only are the policy and rules of the association matters for immediate action, but another question presents itself for serious consideration-that of the conflicting claims of the club and the men who play tennis but have not joined the association. An effort was made last fall to induce all players to join the association, and thus to consolidate the privileges possessed by the members. But the scheme was not entirely successful, and there are at present a number of men who play tennis and do not belong to the club. Whether or not they...
...spontaneity, that musical humor and sparkling freshness, which made 'Die Fledermaus' so delightful. The score contains various pretty numbers, but they are all more or less the product of labor rather than of inspiration. The only exception is the waltz with which the second act closes, a most felicitous effort even for Strauss, though not even in this number does he approach the level of excellence which occurs at the same point in 'Die Fledermaus...