Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...competition is first necessary. All men who are entitled by their past records to try for parts should surely do so. Competition, however, can not lead to a satisfactory selection if it is undertaken without very careful preparation. The time is fast approaching when it will be useless to attempt such preparation. Seniors who intend to try for Commencement Parts should not much longer postpone their choice of a subject, or they will realize too late that they have lost the opportunity to enter into competition with any chance of success...
2BEGINNING tonight the Park Theatre will present "Trilby," the new dramatization of Paul M. Potter. This is the first time that any attempt has been made to introduce "Trilby" on the stage and the outcome will be awaited with interest The atmosphere of the Latin quarter pervades the whole of the first two acts. The third act shows a scene in Drury Lane Theatre, with a distant view of the stage, where may be seen Trilby and the orchestra leader. The tumult aroused by her failure to sing and the subsequent death of Svengali end this act. The fourth...
There will be another total eclipse of the moon September 3, and an attempt to get observations will be made again then...
...would be as effectively, though not as satisfactorily, prevented, as if the challenge had never been sent. We did not, therefore, regard our editorial as a discouragement to the Harvard Freshman Debating Club in following a course of action to which it was already finally committed, but as an attempt, however late, to put such committal out of the question. If in the end the challenge is accepted, the club will find none more earnest than we shall be in supporting its efforts to make the first freshmen contest in debate a success...
...believe, too great maturity and experience on the part of the participants to be undertaken with success by freshmen. We would not deny to the freshmen clubs a considerable usefulness in widening the field of undergraduate debate and preparing men who may later represent the University. When, however, freshmen attempt to enter into intercollegiate contests, there is great danger that the immaturity of their efforts will tend to bring even the debates between the Universities into disrepute...