Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Southern traitors sick,' and his election might tend to induce the officers of old Harvard to devote themselves to the legitimate duties of their positions, keep out of politics and keep up and maintain the high standard of the college, instead of degrading it with party politics." The attempt "to exert a controlling influence in politics" is, according to this correspondent, a highly reprehensible offence in a college man. "Politics," forsooth, belong entirely with the man of affairs, the "politician," and the man who is not biased in his opinions by the unfortunate disadvantage of a college education. A fallacy...
...merely a loafing place for a number of "fast" young men possessed of plenty of money and time and with nothing to do but squander both. It is undoubtedly true that such a set does exist at Harvard, as well as at other large colleges, however much we may attempt to deny the fact, and of the life of this class of students Guerndale gives a very fair and piquant account. The various scenes in Randolph and Guerndale's rooms are familiar to us all. Little Billy Bixby, with his propensities for poker and mixed drinks, is well known...
...still, although we acknowledge the truth of the sketch as far as it goes, it does not go far enough. It is not fair for a writer to attempt to give an account of such an institution as Harvard and then give only one side of it. Of course the book is not professedly an account of every phase of life in the university; but the fact that it takes the matter up at all would require that some slight mention at least be made of other sets besides that which Bixby and Symonds cultivated. For there is another...
...faculty in establishing a new course in French (V.) is, we think, to be highly commended. There are many students in college who are unable or unwilling to give the amount of time required by any of the other French courses, and who do not wish to attempt to acquire a thorough knowledge of the language at Harvard, but rather choose to defer its completer acquisition to a later time. But many of these find it necessary in their other courses to obtain a working knowledge of French and ability to translate ordinary passages at sight. For the requirements...
Although many attempts have been made to trace back the observance of class day to the very earliest years of the college, it is probable that the first exercises are directly due to an attempt made by the overseers in 1754 to improve the elocution of the students by requiring public recitation of Latin dialogues, or dialogues translated from the Latin into the English...