Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...practice. Contrary to the custom of past years, however, but four days of practice a week will be held. To conclude the season's work a game has been scheduled with Dummer Academy for the first Saturday in November. Active coaching will be done throughout the fall but no attempt will be made to pick a University squad...
...work was laid out and directed by Mr. D. L. Turner and six assistants. The work--Plane, Geodetic and Railroad Surveying -- counted a course and a half for each man and lasted nine weeks. The camp will be held at the same place next summer, and an attempt will be made to introduce several kinds of recreation...
...morning then went on the University field, where they lined up for about fifteen minutes of actual play. After considerable fumbling team B got the ball, and Devens tried a kick, but the pass was poor, and he missed. The next kick was blocked, but the following attempt was successful. Team A then advanced the ball for some distance through Eaton, who did not play strongly. Team B secured the ball on a fumble, and Knowles went around left end for fifteen yards. Bucking by Devens and another long run by Knowles brought the ball within one yard...
...Chin Wee," a poem, also unsigned, is a clever bit of versification -- nothing more. "The Eagle," by Roy Pier, is pleasing in conception and imagery, but halting in its rhythm. "On Lafayette Square," a prose article by R. Inglis, which concludes the number, is a good attempt at a difficult character sketch...
...main object of the book is to put on record in some form or other every event worthy of remembrance that has taken place during the College course of the present Senior Class. This is done very well, considering that it is the first attempt, and as a Class history it is something unique and well worth while...