Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conditions under which the dream happened to me were these.-Last Friday I read a very dull book nearly all day,-"grinding" for the Mid-years. At length, in the evening, I could stand it no longer. My mind was tired, my memory overtaxed. With one last attempt to master my author's dullness, I yielded to him and retired from the contest exhausted. To invigorate myself I turned to De Quincey. I chanced to take up the volume on Murder, and tried the story of the murderer Johnson. The first few pages were interesting. The interest developed. Before...
...soon as this resolution was passed there was a fierce attempt to tack an amendment to it, resolving that the students desired and hoped for ultimate executive powers. Before this matter could be fully discussed, the meeting adjourned, and the question was postponed till the next meeting...
...Garrick in Macbeth, that he played the part of the Moor in a powdered gray wig; and it is probable that in Shakspere's time there was an equal conformity with the prevailing English fashions. This feature of the play the Shakspere club does not care to reproduce. The attempt will be made, instead, to imitate with historical fidelity the costume of the Romans of the time of Cxsar. This will be made an important feature of the play...
...Fogg '85, will enter for the "Running High Kick" at the Technology games, and attempt to break the amateur "Hitch and Kick" record, 8 feet 5 inches...
...that eighty-six has voted to hold another dinner, it is to be hoped that the project may be carried out successfully. Eighty-five made the attempt without success, and, we are constrained to believe, made a grave mistake in losing so rare an opportunity for an evening of social enjoyment. Class feeling is slowly dying out at Harvard, a result attributable to many causes, and class dinners are among the few things left that can momentarily rekindle the smoldering embers of the old-time enthusiasm. We shall be greatly surprised if there is any difficulty in securing fifty names...