Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...intercollegiate shoot between Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania, the four universities composing the Intercollegiate Shooting Association, will take place in New Haven on Saturday, May 7. Each team will be made up of five men who will each shoot at 50 birds at unknown angles. An attempt has been made to have Cornell and Columbia join the association in time to take part in this shoot...
...basketball squad will be held in the Gymnasium at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon. In view of the poor defensive work which was so apparent in the Pennsylvania game Friday, F. B. Barnes of the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. has been secured to attend practice this week and attempt to develop this department of the game...
...better team than the one which lined up against Yale this year. The coach on the field will be selected as in previous years and will have nearly the same authority. The committee of seven is too large to undertake to handle the actual coaching and should not attempt it, as nothing but confusion would result. They will probably meet seldom and operate solely as a check or judicial body to help out the coach, the captain, and their advisers, in making their plans in their relations with the Athletic Committee, and in whatever difficulties they may find themselves...
...affirmative case rests, the speaker said, on an attempt to prove that trade unionism has invaded the rights (1) of the employer, (2) of the non-union men, (3) of the general public. These three points the three speakers would endeavor to prove...
...speaker continued his argument by stating that this dictatorial stand of the unions means an attempt to build up a state within a state: to establish an irresponsible government in the avowed interest of a small percentage of a single class (for organized labor constituents but fifteen per cent, of all the labor of our country). This general tendency, therefore, is detrimental to the best interests of labor and of the whole country...