Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defeat of Harvard by Yale in the track games ought to drive home a lesson which Harvard must learn before an equal share in athletic victories will ever come to her. It is that if Harvard is to win, the whole of Harvard must unite in the attempt to win. Part of Harvard may do its best, but, if part of Harvard is to be pitted against the whole of Yale, how more than occasional victories can result...
...whole, this postponement will be seen to do more harm than good. On the other hand, if the members of the Tennis Association are so fair-minded as to appreciate the situation and to relieve the present need, the baseball men owe it to them to make no attempt to keep Jarvis beyond the present season...
...advantage, two questions ought to be answered with regard to each applicant: First, what will be his usefulness in after life; secondly, how much money does he need to enable him to secure a college education. We believe that the first question cannot be answered definitely and that the attempt to answer it by reference to college rank is particularly disastrous. Who can tell, or who even honestly thinks he can tell, of how much use a student will be in after life by counting the A's and B's which he secures in his courses at college...
...poetry the verse as a strain or melodic phrase is almost lost sight of. "John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave. His soul is marching on," represents in a manner the modern delivery of poetry. In Latin it would be, "JohnBrown'sbody liesamoulderingin thegrave. Hissoulismarchingon." The attempt has been made to approach the Latin metrical utterance, though in many places our English influences have been rather too strong...
...that Winter Meetings,- at least any to which admission is charged, are things of the past. We take this position, not because the Winter Meetings are bad but because they have out lived their usefulness. When there are many forms of athletics in which students eagerly take part the attempt to continue old forms which have little to recommend them except that they were once popular,- this seems to us like throwing good effort away. The meetings which are really needed are those held out-of-doors, and we are sure that such painstaking and conscientious work as the Athletic...