Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual spring tournament of Exeter Academy will occur this year on May 12. A strong attempt was made to get Andover to contest in the various athletic events, and form an inter-scholastic association. For some reason or other the desired result could not be brought about, although it is possible that in the near future track athletics may be as important a fixture between the two academies as the football and baseball matches. There are twenty events in all, onehalf to take place in the morning, the other during the afternoon. Following is a list of the entries...
...Thought Transference" is a clear statement of the present condition of the work done by the Society for Psychical Research. The author does not attempt to express personal views on the subject, but lays the facts before the reader and leaves him largely to his own conclusions. The time has come when intelligent men can no longer close their eyes to such questions...
...poem, "My Beloved," by Mr. Sempers, is a highly successful attempt. There are few men in college who dare attempt such high themes, and the author is to be commended for his creditable work...
...also scored in this inning on a hit and several passed balls. Harvard did not do anything until the seventh, when Boyden led off with a clean hit to centre, took second on a wild pitch, third on Dean's sacrifice to Meade, and came home on an unsuccessful attempt by Cahill to catch him at third...
...brought on severe headaches. A few weeks before commencement he became violently insane and died before his class graduated. My own room-mate in his efforts to retain his scholarship neglected exercise and all relaxation. During his senior year he was obliged to leave college in a vain attempt to escape consumption...