Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...merely a clerical devise for the classification of students, but when every instructor is permitted to ride his pet hobby rough shod over the necks of his pupils, and estimate work and standing by purely arbitrary standards, it is not very strange that men should in some measure attempt to equalize and justify the results each in his own particular case. It is not in human nature, even if it is theoretically expected under Harvard's system of instruction, that men should look after their best interests only, and with a single purpose, when incentives and temptations of all sorts...
...report was in circulation last night that the President abandoned a carefully planned trip to Philadelphia on the ground that he had been informed by the chief of police that socialists might attempt his life...
...bold attempt was made yesterday by a woman in New York to rob a Cincinnati gentleman of $7,700. His promptly noticing the absence of his pocket-book in its usual place led to her immediate arrest...
...would deter most men from abusing the privilege of transfer. But actual experience shows that it does not. Men do not scruple to sign a lie when it comes to a matter of rooms. They excuse themselves by saying that everybody else does it. Of course I will not attempt to show to what extremes such reasoning leads...
...there is now a strong guarantee that the price of board at the hall will not exceed $4.25 per week; while the quality of the food is better than ever before, and most certainly superior to any that can be obtained outside at the same price. But this attempt to adapt the hall to the needs of the large number - the majority it is believed - of students, who ask for simple, wholesome fare at low rates, can only meet with success if responded to with liberality. It is necessarily merely an experiment for the rest of this year...