Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...above is an attempt at a fair statement of the arguments urged by the committee in support of it's action. What do the students respond...
...plea for the continuance of foot ball in the future. It seems to us that foot ball is too valuable a game to be discontinued and that, it the committee have so strong an objection to the game as their notice implies, they should make an attempt to better it before forbidding it entirely. That it is a valuable game is proved in many ways. Not long ago, the man most qualified to know, the director of the gymnasium, said he considered that it furnished the best exercise of any game. And what is the verdict of the youth...
...committee ought to submit to the students their objections, stated specifically, and let them make an effort for change. The committee may claim that they did so last year with no beneficial results; but the method of their action then was so distasteful to the undergraduates that the attempt on their part at radical change was not genuine and so came to nothing. Then the idea of faculty interference in athletics was so novel and disagreeable, that the students simply bucked against it recklessly. Now the idea of interference, although no less disagreeable, perhaps, has lost all of its novelty...
...with a sense of hopelessness that we speak again on the subject of chapel going, for the only return that the protests of the students have received hitherto is a contemptuous silence. We state definitely, that we have full sympathy with any attempt to do away with compulsory attendance at prayers. And although we view the present movement to that end as doomed to failure, still, we trust that every undergraduate will sign the "petition," in order to express once more the feeling with which this foolishly wrong custom of chapol-going is regarded. At any rate...
...takes any pleasure at all in walking, Cambridge is sure to afford an increased pleasure, to the man who delights in stroll and country rambles, Cambridge is a "bonanza.." He who attempts to visit every place in or about Cambridge that is interesting for its beauty, its historical reminiscences, or its connection with intellectual advancement. has his hands full. Walks however that might require several hours, were they actually attempted, may be taken on paper in a very short time, certainly with less trouble, and perhaps with nearly as much interest, although for myself reading about a thing is very...