Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundred years ago, when the college was yet young, the requisition for entrance was "to read and converse in easy Greek and Latin," and although candidates for admission did not come up to the present ideal in classical knowledge, still it must be confessed that they made the crude attempt of a system soon to become universal. Until quite recently the method pursued in the study of languages has been a peculiar one, not to put it too strongly, a method employing the dictionary largely in translating the author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound...
...while it is freely admitted that they played a better game than our nine, there is little doubt that they succeeded in accomplishing their attempt to "rattle" our nine. It takes much more practice and much stronger nerves than most freshmen, or even upper class men possess, to play a steady game under such circumstances. Dartmouth seems to have been entertained in the same manner on Monday. In the latter game they are said to have apologized for their mode of welcome, after they had gained the game by that same welcome. Truly, this is a good specimen of Yale...
...most creditable, and tends to make all intercourse between the two colleges manly and fair. The great evil of indifference, however, is shown by the elements of which the various Harvard teams are composed. Only men who have been noted for good playing, or rowing, when at school attempt to gain positions on any of our teams, and a large majority of such men in the different classes do not even try. It may be the fault of the management that not enough inducement has been held out to make the men try for positions. The position that Harvard holds...
After some delay the ball was again faced and Yale in a few minutes scored a second goal by a shot of twombly. Rueter made an attempt to stop it, but Spencer, of Yale, got his nose in the way so that the ball went through the poles, and Spencer, although saving the day for Yale, had a violent nose-bleed. Harvard made several close shots for goal, and once or twice the Yale men shot dangerously near Harvard's goal; but drake was there and defended his post well, ably seconded by the defence men. Time was called...
...early hour. The fire on the grass by the library, which did so much injury, would not have been put there, except that its promoters were less likely to be caught in such a place. A bonfire is no crime, if it does no injury, and no one would attempt injury, unless detection means punishment...