Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...editorial is worth reading--and believing. In "College Kodaks" the Advocate editors have set themselves the hard task of commenting, lightly and yet with no obvious attempt at joking, upon the little happenings and phases of college life. For the excellence of the aim, one may easily pardon the treatment which has as yet been only partly satisfactory...
...decided to give a Greek play and arrangements are now in progress for the production of "Ajax" of Sophocles. The play will be given in an informal manner before the club on February 26. The actors will read their lines from the manuscript and will probably make no attempt at costumes. The play is divided into several acts and consists principally of dialogues...
...urged that every one in the Freshman class who is able even to attempt to row report at the boat-house...
...attempt was made to arrange a relay race with Yale, but this had to be abandoned, owing to Yale's inability to send a team to the B. A. A. meet...
...afternoon. Thirty five men reported for the Weld crews and about sixty for the Newell. The men were coached individually and in eights on the rowing machines by R. S. Francis '02, E. E. Smith '02 and H. Bullard '02, and afterwards were given exercise with chest weights. No attempt was made to arrange the men into regular crews...