Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lafayette has abandoned the attempt to form a new base-ball league, on account of a lack of interest in the project...
...need of systematic practice," says the Advocate, "was felt at first. Harvard was the first college to take up base-ball and consequently easily distanced her sister colleges, and also wrested the championship from the Lowell Club in the first attempt. Defeat taught the vanquished the necessity of discipline. The Williams College nine was under the care of two professional trainers for several weeks before the match at Worcester, and the powerful batting of the Lowell nine was the result of faithful attendance at the gymnasium last winter. Success on the other hand blinded the Harvard nine to the necessity...
...corridor of many of the city hotels. This plan it is said will obviate the present tendency to the formation of cliques. This is far from assured. These so-called cliques are no more or less groups of men formed by commonality of taste or social distinction. To attempt by the formation of a common meeting place for the whole university to break down such relations simply argues a want of insight into the causes of these relations. There now exist many societies which, we venture to say, cover almost every need of Harvard social life...
...Harvard team is greatly weakened by the loss of A": "Without X Harvard has no chance at the championship": and so on ad nauseum. And often too, there is some truth in these statements. For, relying on the powers of a few men, we have made no attempt to bring out the skill which may exist in other quarters. Hence, we have substantially to start afresh whenever a team loses several of its strongest...
...long and severe taining at the expense of which they have won success, we easily forget or underrate it. If more men had trained, even but little, a nine victorious for the first time in many years, would not need to wait six months for a struggling attempt to give it cups. By all means, then, let your correspondent's suggestions receive the encouragement they deserve. Not, I mean, by the college authorities only, but by our own selves. We must even bear in mind that by so much as our own power is increased in any direction...