Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...deals with the passionate and unselfish love of a native woman for a white adventurer. The story was, perhaps, inspired by Kipling's "Without Benefit of Clergy," but the author's development of the idea has many original merits. "A Circus Madonna," by Murray Seasongood '00 is a feeble attempt at delineation of character. "Mary," by Ernest A. Wye '01, is a most disappointing story. It starts well, but ends nowhere. After sketching characters and choosing a good setting for a plot, the writer evidently concluded to let "well enough alone" and so did not bother about action...
...attempt to prescribe the specific instruction to be given through this professorship; but I may say that I have endowed it not only in the faith that it will always be filled by an able and patriotic citizen, zealously devoted to its purpose, but in the hope that through its teaching; the great principles upon which our national constitution is based, and in conformity to which administration should be carried on, will be vindicated and strengthened; that the fit relations between parties and government will be made plain, that the obligations of the moral law and of patriotic endeavor...
...Morley's Beggary," A. H. Gilbert '01, relates an impossible story, which is later discovered to be a dream. Throughout, the story is smooth and swift, but, in plot and analysis of character, it is feeble. "Miss Carrigan: A Modern," by Lewis D. Humphry '01, is an interesting attempt at character sketching. The author plainly knows what he wants to say, and says it cleverly. "Elizabeth and Priscilla," by W. N. Seaver '00, just fails of being very good indeed. It is carefully planned and well written. But it is not convincing. "Tom's Wife," is a New England dialect...