Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...disappointment had betrayed the University for the sake of private gain. Such things have happened before. This is not the first time that a small clique has supposed that an injury to it was an injury to the whole University, nor is it the first time that an attempt has been made to bound the University by the four partition walls of an editorial sanctum...
Some time ago it was suggested at a meeting of the Classical Club that an attempt should be made to present a portion of Greek comedy. It has now been decided to make the attempt, and arrangements are in progress for the production of the last two acts of Aristophane's "Birds." The play will be given before the club next March probably in Harvard Hall. Music has been composed especially for this performance by Professor J. K. Paine, and has been pronounced most successful. A chorus, selected chiefly form the members of the College choir and the Glee Club...
...greatest faults with the present apparatus of the gymnasium is that its form of exercises is monotonous. An attempt has been made to supply this want by so constructing a machine that exercise on it will afford an opportunity for competition in different kinds of races. It is also intended to furnish the best means of strengthening and developing all the muscles of the body in a natural way, so that the heart and lungs will be equally developed without overtaxing them with too vigorous efforts...
...fourth annual convention of physical directors of the leading universities and colleges of the United States will be held in New York at Columbia University on Friday and Saturday, December 28 and 29. Dr. Sargene will attempt from Harvard...
...personage, whose true place in our history has always been a disputed question. The book does not enter the field of minute detail and criticism; it is "for those who would rather understand than judge him." Mr. Brown writes of his character charitably but without bias; he does not attempt to diagnose his faults or condone his vices, but he does not dwell upon them with distorting emphasis. The Creek and Seminole wars, the battle of New Orleans, the history of Jackson in politics are entertamingly fold and one comes partly to understand that influence which he held over...