Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempt a slight analysis of our poets and their work. First in favor is the amorous versifier. He sings in the abstract and therefore for all. His "Genevieve" is our "Genevieve;" in the beauty and grace of his love we see the ten-fold greater beauty and grace of our love. And so we applaud him to the echo and he walks before us with an added sense of his power and genius. And we steal his lines and post them as an offering to our love, no longer his. With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings...
From these few examples of translations it is quite evident that the attempt to find a love story in the German was very general. The pronoun, "sie," is quite as suggestive and inspiring as our own "she." Perhaps the translations tell too well the tendencies of youth...
There is an attempt to get up a team of St. Paul's graduates in college to play the St. Paul hockey team at Concord after the mid-years...
...midst, we are, or ought to be, capable of appreciating the agony of the man who finds himself confronted by some phrase of a dead or unfamiliar living language which he cannot, for the life of him, translate. No true Harvard man, however, will give up the attempt to construe a sentence because of any such trivial obstacle as total ignorance of its meaning. A good guess is not without its value, and if the guesser fails to hit within forty rows of apple trees of his mark, - why, it makes no difference. A total omission would have been fully...
...very funny, though pitifully so, that we might almost think that the prayer petition is about to be granted, - and this raises hopes which no man can innocently enjoy. But this weather is so "sloppy" that perhaps even Lampy can be forgiven if he will cease to attempt henceforth to illumine his columns with that talismanic word, the CRIMSON. Of course the Lampoon cannot appreciate the blessings of Harvard morality and religion. But a too candid acknowledgement of a want of moral stamina and cerebral perception is often laboriously tiresome. We trust that our religious editorials will...