Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regretted sincerely that the attempt to have a junior class dinner should have been so completely unsuccessful. The committee wisely made frequent postponements in the hope that finally sufficient enthusiasm might be scraped together to induce seventy-five men out of a class of over two hundred to lend their aid to bring about a reunion of the class; but the effort failed, to the discredit and injury, it must be confessed, of no one but the class...
...recent attempt to secure a foothold for the admission of women to the Harvard Medical School seems to have provoked little interest among the students of the university at large-a fact that is undoubtedly due to the feeling on the part of the college that the possibility of the successful termination of such an attempt is very remote, and that an attempt to secure their admission into the college proper would be still more unavailing. This confidence is undoubtedly well grounded. The rigid conservatism of the government of Harvard University has been so repeatedly proved that the danger...
...goals" will be quite a feature in the new game, for in the vicinity of the goal lines five yards are gained with much difficulty, and the side pressing its opponents to the goal line will almost certainly be required to make an attempt at goal as a last extremity before losing the ball. The side forced back to its own lines will still, however, be put at a great disadvantage, since the safety touch-down rule is imperative and punt-overs in such a case will be extremely difficult, and consequently hazardous. It will be interesting to notice...
Although a strong northwesterly wind prevailed yesterday forenoon, the junior crew made the attempt to go over the course on time. They started a few minutes after eleven, and despite the fact that each wave washed considerable water into the boat, they pushed on. As it afterward proved, the neglect to put on the washboards proved fatal. When nearly 150 yards from the Union boat-house, the forward part of the boat was so full of water that something had to be done to relieve the heavy strain. Perceiving, with the true instinct of heroes, the imminent danger...
...difficult to form a just estimate of their comparative value. But in one important feature our system appears to have a decided advantage. The course pursued at Harvard from its very nature compels the use of the marking system, ours dispenses with it, so far at least as to attempt no nice grading of scholarship by mark...