Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cannot say, however, that we should favor an attempt to arrange games with any but teams in this immediate vicinity. Intercollegiate contests, it seems to us, may well be confined to their present limits...
...kick-off, Brewer ran too far with the ball and the kick was stopped, the ball rolling over the Harvard line, where Beacham fell on it for Cornell's first touchdown. Ohl kicked the goal. After Wrightington's pretty run for twenty-five yards, Brewer failed in an attempt for a goal from the field. By short rushes Brewer scored the second touchdown. There was the usual exchange of punts and Wrightington's twenty-five yard run around the end, aided by Brewer's splended run of thirty-five yards, scored Harvard's third touchdown, from which A. Brewer failed...
...Prospect Union has been quite successful in its attempt to get together a library. By canvassing some of the buildings about three hundred books of all descriptions have been collected, and besides these the Foxcroft Club has generously given its library of two hundred books. It has been found that men have been very ready to give when someone has personally explained just what use the books are to be put to, but it will be impossible to canvass the whole college. It is hoped therefore that men will bring the books they can afford to part with...
...Democratic party has made a consistent attempt to carry out its pledges. (a) Original Wilson bill: Boston Herald, Feb. 2, 1894. (b) Silver repeal in Boston Herald, Oct. 22-25, 1893. (c) Repeal of federal election laws; Boston Herald, Feb. 9, 1894. (d) Pension reform: Pol. Science Quarterly IX, 351 (June...
...working of the new football rules was very apparent in the practice of the varsity yesterday afternoon. Most of the playing indicated a return to an open style of play and good, honest football. The play was sharp and spirited; of course it is too early to attempt to criticise anything more than the spirit in which the men went at their work, which for the most part is most commendable. If special praise be bestowed on any of the players, Captain Emmons, the Brewers, Moulton and Borden surely deserve...