Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after all something is lacking in the scene. We try to think what it can be, and finally we discover it. Right before us stretching over a hundred yards of ground, the walls of the Jefferson Laboratory raise their giant and rigid outlines; their harsh effect lessened by no attempt at any concealment of their hideous nudity. As we rise with a sigh because the field cannot be entirely beautiful after all, we breathe a wish that our landscape gardner would only train a little ivy up the north end of that building, or plant a few young elms...
...varsity nine meets its strongest rival at New Haven; the freshmen play one of the games which are to decide whether or not the class of eighty-eight at Yale shall retain a championship which has not left New Haven for many years; the lacrosse team will make an attempt to bring back the laurels which it lost last year; the Athletic Association holds its most important meeting. from the, winners in which will be chosen the men who are to defend our Mott Haven cup; and the cricket men are to meet one of the strongest elevens...
...best conveyance of the speaker's thoughts and not an independent exercise of his lungs, was the prime idea of declama tion. And yet there is danger in too great an effort to attain naturalness when much of the higher power of declamation is sacrificed in the attempt. The contest was in every way worthy of the college, and will long be remembered as one of the most successful declamations which has occurred for years...
...innovation which the management of the nine is about to attempt is worthy of attention and commendation. Rampant muckerdom, regardless of the rights of private individuals and corporations, reigns supreme during the pleasant spring all over the lands of Harvard. No portion of the college grounds is free from the obnoxious presence of the small rascals, whom the collegian has dubbed with the sobriquet, muckers. They invade the dignified yard to the very steps of the dormitories, play tag upon the steps of the gymnasium and swarm in crowds over the track and diamond of the athletic fields...
...this latter phase of the mucker nuisance, their continual presence upon the fields, which the manager of the nine will attempt to abate. He proposes to hire a special police officer to look after the grounds, and in case the muckers do not keep away, to have a few of them arrested each day and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, for trespassing on private property...