Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since the first game of the 1920 series has a University baseball team defeated a Holy Cross nine. Today at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field the Crimson will attempt to break the five years losing record, against a Purple aggregation minus the great Owen Carroll, but again ranked as one of the strongest college teams in the East. At the same time the Harvard and Holy Cross first year squads will battle for supremacy on the Freshman diamond, and the University Seconds will journey to Providence to meet the Brown 1929 team...
...assistance which is offered is not strictly tutoring, but an attempt to point out what is important in the various courses and how to get it in the most efficient...
...chose from the first part of Goethe s tragedy. Mephistopheles made Faust live on, enticed him with promises of pleasures, with visions of fair Marguerite, restored him to youth. There were the same choral festivities with students, soldiers, peasants and burghers, the same stout Valentine, who dies in the attempt to avenge his sister's honor. Marguerite spun her stint, disported herself with jewels and flowers, repulsed Faust, then yielded. The prison scene was the same?a repentant maiden condemned for infanticide, the tortured offender dragged relentlessly away by Mephistopheles, and Marguerite carried away high into the sky by white...
Died. Bobby Leach, 64, English-born "daredevil artist," famed for his successful trip over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel (1911); at Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr. Leach failed in an attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara last fall. His death resulted when he slipped upon a bit of orange peel, broke his leg, and underwent a subsequently fatal amputation...
...just such a standard, and one by which he was willing that his administration should be judged. A similar feather in his hat, of smaller significance, perhaps, and a plume of different hue, is the Gadfly which appears this morning. For not only is it a careful and diligent attempt to cope with problems of imminent import to the University, but it also presents an attitude quite opposite to that of the Student Council Committee, and the attitude more to be expected from explosive youth...