Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boat Club which is published in this morning's CRIMSON will be found interesting reading. The Boat Club has suffered much, like all the other organizations which had to do with the training table of last year, from the unfortunately careless management of what we still believe was an attempt in the right direction. The accounts of the training table have not yet been made public, but we hope that they may see the light before very long, and that the college may learn whether a similar scheme would be again feasible, or whether there are really insurmountable obstacles...
...Upton, President of the Yale Union, was in Cambridge last Saturday evening to make arrangements for the second debate, to be held at New Haven about March 25th. An attempt will be made by both colleges to make this more of a university affair than the last; it is hoped that the best speakers from the two institutions may meet not only as members of the two Unions but as representatives of the best work in speaking done at Cambridge and New Haven. Both Unions are to have a competitive preliminary debate on the final subject when the representatives...
...subject of Professor Hart's lecture at 7.30 this evening in Sever 11, will be "The Chilean Question: a Study of American International Politics." Professor Hart will not attempt to give an account of the late Chilean controversy, but will give a description of the conditions under which the trouble was brought about, the way it was settled, and the principles established as to the relations of the United States to other American countries. He will also consider the questions of international law involved in the difficulty, and will present some facts in relation to it which would...
...teaching of some of the courses. This, of course, was hurtful to the college. The authorities must see that a certain amount of instruction is given, and anything that interrupts or interferes with the course of this instruction cannot be allowed to go on without an investigation and an attempt at remedy by the authorities...
...records of the Corporation published in the last University Bulletin contains the story of how the attempt to suppress the third Dudleian lecture failed. The subject of this lecture, it will be remembered, is "the detecting and conviction and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpation, damnable baseness, fatal errors, abominable superstitions and other crying wickedness in their high places...