Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...attempt to change the College colors has ingloriously failed, and still they say, "Long live the green and white...
...their methods of cleaning rooms, and so little notice has been taken of these complaints, that any further remarks on the subject seem entirely useless. Still, if anything can be said to convince the Corporation of the reality of this grievance, it ought to be published. At least the attempt ought to be made to persuade them to procure better servants for the ensuing year...
...next class to be shattered on, and it behooves Seventy-eight, if she wishes to keep up this time-honored custom of our fathers, to take warning. Already there is noticeable among men who hold a prominent position, both in the class and in the Faculty, an attempt to chill all ardor on this subject, with the hope that, being an unnecessary if not childish practice, unworthy of the consideration of men of mature judgment, Class Day, once the brightest day in the student's calendar, will eventually...
...second inning resulted in a quick blank for Yale. Thayer gets his base on Wheaton's error and steals second. Ernst flies out to Brown. Thayer is thrown out by short stop to third, and Latham goes out at second in a vain attempt to steal. Brown begins the third inning with a safe hit, but is soon put out at second by a nice bound catch of Sawyer's from Tyng's low throw. Wheaton sends Dow a fly, and Morgan goes out on Thayer's pretty throw to first. Wright, Dow, and Sawyer put out at first...
...Charles Dudley Warner, and the speeches of other distinguished men." There is sarcasm somewhere, but whether it is that Mr. Warner's remarks do not deserve to be called "a speech," or that the other gentlemen cannot be called witty, - this is a question we shall not attempt to solve...