Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received the Brunonian in its new form, and a very bright and well-appearing paper it is. It adheres to the plan of printing a longer and more pretentious story than is usual in college papers; but if the attempt is always as successful as in the present number, the Brunonian need print no shorter pieces. The editorial articles are evidently interesting to the students of Brown, and in keeping with the local character of the paper...
...called Union College, and its organ, the College Spectator, favors us with some gratuitous advice with reference to the settlement of the Yale-Harvard difficulties, which is, to say the least, amusing. As its deductions are all drawn from the false premise that "Harvard has charged Yale with an attempt of a malicious foul," it is needless to particularize, and we would only suggest that meddling in other people's affairs without any knowledge of the facts is extremely hazardous...
...Montpensier collection seem to have been written; but perhaps it is well to indicate, rather roughly at first, those pictures that seem to rouse deeper attention than the others, and to be the most likely to repay further serious study. This is all that we, at least, attempt. Care must be taken here, as always in studying works of art, to distinguish between excellences or defects of execution, - the language of art, - and those of thought and feeling which the language clothes. The former requires not only vast knowledge of technicalities, but also of the aspects of nature...
...society of our day much greater energy is called forth in the individual; his position is more manly, more independent, but at the same time more unprotected. Labor and capital, united in a patriarchal system, are regarded as opposed to each other in our own, and the only attempt at an organization is that of the trades-unions, which "involve a complete levelling process, and in which the arithmetical view of society reaches its extreme results." Our author concludes, then, that "at best liberty is not progress. It is a condition of progress. Its worth depends upon...
...Wesleyan vs. Columbia. Not entertained, as the steering of each boat was somewhat wild, with no apparent wilful attempt to foul...