Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about the criticism which has just been pronounced on Mr. Emerson by a man almost equally famous, Mr. Matthew Arnold. It would seem as if a great number of Emerson's countrymen were unaware of the esteem and appreciation in which they held him, until they imagined an attempt was being made to lower him from his lofty place. Since then, nothing that could be said has been too extravagant to be uttered in his eulosy. But we believe that all this commotion and fear has been excited by a false impression of Mr. Arnold's criticism. Instead of taking...
Oxford is greatly excited by an attempt to appoint a dissentor as examiner of students in church theology, including the "39 articles." Prof. Jowett, lately attempted, according to custom, to address a meeting in Latin, but mixed his genders, broke down and fell back on English...
...Advocate's latest attempt at a joke in the Item column is painful. The report, however, that half the subscription will be returned as an atonement, is wholly without foundation...
...said, 'there is the bar.' If these young men had been drunk, we would have supposed that they were on a drunken carousal and when they got sober they would be ashamed of their conduct, but as they appeared to be sober we supposed that it was a premeditated attempt to ridicule the ministers on board or their church...
...their hurrahs more or less to the fashions set by the colleges, surely the latter are not to blame. The form of cheering adopted by any college is its distinctive possession and invaluable birthright. The practice forms one of the most cherished of college customs, and he who would attempt to stamp it out is but a tyrant and an innovator, whose conduct could only arouse abhorrence in all right-thinking minds. Besides we are inclined to think that the popular cheer is not so much influenced by the peculiar forms of college cheers as the Times would imply...