Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Another attempt at comic opera of native production is to be tried at the Bijou, New York...
...attempt to introduce the mortar-board at Cornell has proved a failure. Although exchanges occasionally break out with the declaration that "the Oxford cap is worn at Cornell," it is not worn here nor has it been this year. - [Cornell...
...voice so weak, that those in the back of the room would fain have had telephonic communication with the desk. As near as could be gathered his lecture was taken up with a review of Addison, the author's mode of criticism as shown in the "Spectator," an attempt to trace its effects in the German school. Part of the lecture was occupied in readings from "Sir Roger de Coverley." Those who had read Sir Roger recognize and appreciate Mr. Perry's efforts to bring out the "delicate touches" of the work. The effect on subsequent English writers, the success...
...finally becomes so timid that he hardly dares to write a line, unless surrounded by dictionaries, grammars, rhetorics, a "thesaurus," books of synonyms, etc. His spontaneity disappears; he looks upon originality as something for which he must never make the slightest attempt, and he comes to think he has attained the ideal when his writing reads like a catalogue, and when he has acquired a style, which, from its lack of individuality, is no style...
...that a few men are trying to urge the freshmen to attend the "Black Crook" in a body. The freshmen have now been in college long enough to know better than to do such a foolish thing, and we hope that these few mischief lovers will desist from their attempt to make an absurd display of themselves...