Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last recognize the model college publication. Uniting in its management members of both graduate and undergraduate departments and admitting to the privileges of its columns students as well as professors, it fills a place in college journalism that is occupied by no publication in this country. The only attempt at journalism at all similar, the Harvard Register, failed because it could not be said to represent the undergraduate or the instructor. Although largely filled with contributions from the pens of professors, it was compelled to yield to an official publication of the faculty; it had never commanded the support...
...attempt was made last evening to blow up the local government building in Westminster, Eng. Considerable damage was done but no lives were lost. It is generally believed to be the work of Fenians. An attempt to blow up the office of the London Times was also discovered and frustrated...
Secretary of the Treasury Folger is ill, so ill that yesterday he was obliged to abandon his attempt to attend to business...
...illness of Gortschakoff is caused by an attempt to poison...
...success of the Harvard society has suggested to men at Yale and other colleges to attempt something similar, but as yet nothing but talk has been accomplished. There is no evident reason why Harvard's example cannot be followed by every college in the United States, and in view of the great interest in the experiment manifested at Amherst, Princeton, Yale, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, there is yet room for hope that the Harvard society may be only the leader of a long line of useful organizations. If several of our leading colleges could maintain societies of this...