Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attempt to predict at this early date the chances for a good University crew next spring must necessarily be rather inadequate. In the making of a fast crew, so comparatively little depends on the individual ability of the material, and so much upon the training of the men to row as a unit that the prospects at present are, to say the least indefinite...
...then proved that not only has this work been going on for ages past but also that incomparably longer there have been at work a wonderful succession of agencies building up and tearing down the very rock out of which the canon was afterward cut. Professor Davis did not attempt to estimate the time during which all this has been accomplished but showed that it must have been of a very great duration...
...excepting the frontispiece, diminutive, indistinct and ordinary. The review of the football season is choppy and not always in good English; while "The Spirit of Football" is pointless from first line to last. Though timely in choice of topic, the editorials are inadequate in treatment and betray an attempt at force by the too common artifice of writing at the top of one's voice. "O-Yuki-San's Love" is almost photographic in its vivid description of Japanese life. With scenes more nearly within the average reader's experience, there are great possibilities for a writer of such keen...
...especially worth the reading are "Philosophy 5" and "Sciurus Carolinensis"--themes taken from out the very heart of college life. Nothing is oftener attempted than undergraduate experiences in research courses, but in "Philosophy 5" the topic receives an originality and sprightliness of treatment that lifts it above the ordinary. "Sciurus Carolinensis"--on the Yard squirrels--is a gracefully accomplished attempt to make something out of apparently little. Its passing glimpse at an interesting fact in college history clearly demonstrates where lies the most profitable field for the magazine...
...Observatory has abandoned its attempts to photograph the expected shower of leonids this year in consequence of the unusual rarity of meteors which have been sighted. On Friday night a watch was kept for the shower but only a few desultory meteors fell before a fog arose and precluded further observations. A casual watch was again kept on Saturday night, but not a single meteor was observed. As the extraordinary showers which were predicted to occur about the year 1899 have not materialized, it is probable that the Observatory will make no further attempt to obtain photographs of leonids...