Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...record that the University crew has secured more financial support. The D. K. E. sophomore society is to give public theatricals in Union Hall, Saturday, April 3, In aid of the university crew, and there can be little doubt that the theatricals will be a great success. A strong attempt is being made this year to pay off the debt of the crew, and if the Hasty Pudding and the D. K. E. theatricals receive the support they deserve, this desirable end will probably be accomplished, and the college at large will deeply appreciate the novelty of a crew without...
...DAILY CRIMSON: - The folly, the utter absurdity, of using Sever 11, instead of Sanders Theatre, when a popular lecturer has been engaged to address the students on a theme of absorbing interest, was shamefully demonstrated Tuesday evening. Hundreds who went there, tormented, perhaps, by doubts and difficulties in the attempt to solve the great problem of what their life-work should be, thirsting for the light with which the lecturer's words flooded the subject and which would have aided them in the task of solution, were unable to gain admittance...
...they wish to stay here. For this reason also, suspension or a milder punishment is too light; for a man will take some risk if her knows that in case of detection he will lose only a few months here. But if it were generally understood that the slightest attempt at unfairness, if discovered, would be followed by speedy and absolutely certain dismissal, few would care to make the venture...
...effort was made on Saturday to photograph the Yale freshman class with their "bangers"; however, the wily sophomores frustrated the attempt by pelting the photographer with cannon-crackers, etc., putting him to flight...
...seniors provided punch in a barrel, and brandy and water in pails, which were placed at the foot of the tree, and were steadily replenished all the afternoon, mugs ad libitum being provided for all comers. There were singing, dancing, speaking intermingled with unlimited drinking. Not the slightest attempt was made to control or repress this. It was simply a brutal, howling orgies. There was little attempt at fun, no kind of system or traditional order, nothing but steady drinking and the resulting drunkenness...