Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent announcement that an attempt is being made to establish at Yale a St. Paul Club together with an Exeter Club, in addition to the Andover Club already existing, seems to betray an almost pitiable weakness upon the part of our new-made university. Is Yale upon so weak a basis that it is necessary to form proselyting communities whereby to recruit her numbers? Can she not rely sufficiently upon the advantages which a course of study at New Haven presents above a course of study pursued elsewhere to induce the young men of the country to adopt her antiquated...
...could be distinguished as such. This subject has been revived at every Class Day for years, and it again provokes comment when the garments so essential to the proper ceremonies of an academical observance again appear. It seems hardly too critical to suggest that if the university is to attempt to preserve the umities those unities should display a little more unanimity...
...that which assembled yesterday in Sanders Theatre? What could be more fitting, too, than that at the birthday of festivities of the Alma Mater, the two most famous of her living sons should thus lend their aid in celebrating the natal day? We are at a loss when we attempt adequately to praise the address, because it seems to us that nothing ore appropriate could have been written, nothing worthier of the genius of the author. A great occasion needed a great composition, and the skillful pen of the master has here traced words that will add much...
...Christian Church larger than the discipline of the Puritans, in which the discipline of the Puritans had floated as the part floats in the whole. The discipline of the Puritans felt that which was pressed on was tempted by it, and at last broke open in the attempt to find it. Experience was larger than Whitfield. Dogma was larger than Henry Calvin; life was larger than theology, and so, one after another, in these which are the concentric spheres within which human nature lives, the successive opening of the partial into the universal and the temporary with the eternal, came...
...none which in magnitude and glory could be compared with this. Grave professors, gray-haired students of bygone times, guests, royal and otherwise, jaunty young corps students with their bright-colored caps throng impetuously into the hall. As is usual in a bier kommers, there is some preliminary attempt at literary exercises, either to ease the consciences of the revellers, or, what is more probable, to sweeten by contrast the subsequent carousal. There is some brief speech-making and bowing and toasting and responding by the Grand Duke, and introducing formality. But little by little the deck is cleared...