Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer of your editorial appears to know little of the state of athletics at Harvard and should not have attempted to fill space in the paper by speaking of a subject about which he is so poorly informed. He says: "Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by," etc., and then complains because the lacrosse men do not step in and fill up this gap in the circle of sports. The fact is that foot-ball has not been laid aside even for a time, as the gentleman would easily see if he took...
Such a brazen attempt to weaken, in our young minds, the influence of these time-honored sayings of our ancestors is in itself bad enough, and might be enlarged upon to a much greater extent, but that there is another and a more important side to the question. This other side is, perhaps, rather a matter of opinion as to expediency than anything else. If our modern Joshua is to perform his great act every morning, would it not be just as easy for him to do it twenty minutes earlier? It is anything but conducive to good digestion...
...long time the society lay dormant. Various attempts were made to revive it, but not until 1880 was the attempt successful. The Union now enters upon the sixth year of its renewed existence under most favorable auspices, with every assurance that the present will be its most successful year...
...though hastily gotten together, often row in really good form. The race between freshman eights serve the same purpose as does the clown in a circus. It is to be hoped, however, that the eighty-nine crews will not be wrought to such a pitch of enthusiasm as to attempt to drive their boats through the sea wall, as did the freshman crews of last year. The four oar and single working-boat races are generally of but little interest, and it is probable that the excitement caused by the victory of the CRIMSON crew last year will...
students works well there or would prove a success here, we do not attempt to say, but certainly all will admit that the more college men are treated as men the more satisfactory it is to them, and the more enjoyable is life to a faculty who can rejoice in agreeable relations with the students...