Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rumor is abroad that Hines, the professional catcher, will attempt to catch a ball dropped from the top of the Washington monument...
...best, in fact, that the hall has ever served. In the gymnasium about fifty men exercised every afternoon, under the supervision of Mr. Lathrop, and the absence of the regular crews made the use of the rowing machines popular. A diversion was created on last Tuesday night by the attempt of two men to break into a room in the north entry of Hollis. The burglars were frightened away, however, by the occupants of the room before they succeeded in effecting an entrance. As this occurrence has been reported to the police it is safe to predict that nothing farther...
...class of '85, Columbia, are making an attempt to memorialize themselves by placing a stained-glass window in their college library...
...another proof of the tenacity with which the members of ancient corporations cling to existing institutions even in the face of reason. Public opinion in Germany is undoubtedly moving against this academic verdict. A book has just been published which shows that the opposition to such an artificial attempt to restrict the popular tendency is no longer confined to the interested party itself, but is shared even by a man whose well known impartiality and established position give to his views an unusual weight...
...first attempt at daily journalism was made simultaneously at Harvard and Yale. The "Echo," started in 1879, was the first Harvard daily. Then in 1882, came the "Herald," and in the struggle for the "survival of the fittest," the "Echo died. In 1883 the "Herald" was consolidated with the "Crimson," and was known as the "Herald-Crimson" until the spring of 1884, when it became "THE DAILY CRIMSON...