Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been proposed that there be two races, - but this would of course be out of the question on account of the added expense. As it is the freshman class that is always heavily assessed for its single race with Columbia, it would hardly do to attempt to raise further subscriptions...
...attempt is being made at Andover to re-organize the Academy Boat Club. They have one or two shells which were sent as a present from Yale last year...
...Furber rejoined, on the negative, that Ireland would be just as much an enemy of England, after Home Rule had been granted, as before. Home Rule is something more than an attempt to abolish the evils of caste government; it is the first step in the dismemberment of the empire. In fact, Mr. Parnell declared at Chicago that this was his ultimate object. Mr. Furber closed his case by denouncing the incapacity of the Irish Parliament of 1782, and the violence of the Land League...
...made upon me by a person signing himself "W. S - e, '87" (an abbreviation by the way corresponding with the name of no member of '87 in the catalogue) in your issue of Thursday is unworthy of notice, except for the utterly foundless charge that it contains of an "attempt" on my part to detract from the value and extent of the work now being accomplished by the present instructor in elocution." No one appreciates more highly than I the efforts of Mr. Hayes to give a thorough training in the art of expression, but it is evident...
...England will have the present strong inter collegiate eleven, besides the Tufts Williams League, and one in which Technology. Trinity and other elevens will figure. Dartmouth and Brown are both anxious to be admitted to the fold of some association. With proper legislation next year and the proper attempt to profit by the weak points of the past season, the game in 1887 will be the most prosperous on record. - New York Clipper...