Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...over the recent introduction of the honor system at that college. "It has been known for some time," it cries, "that certain professors were very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system. For it is noteworthy that only that...
...play ball again during his college course. Of those who actually play in their freshman nine, none but the better players generally try for the university in their sophomore year, and few of these who fail on the first trial have courage and perseverance enough to make a second attempt. The list of those who have thus kept on trying after the sophomore year, is, though small, a brilliant one and affords sufficient answer to those who say that if a man has and base-ball in him he will show it in his freshman year. Ernst began to play...
...badly advertised abroad for years. In the older days border raids, guerillas and reprisals gave an unfavorable impression of the state of civilization within our limits, and even today we have not freed ourselves from the reproach incurred by the recent exploits of our noted handits. Yet when we attempt to defend ourselves by pointing to the evidence of our higher civilization, we are confronted by the spectacle of our chief temple of learning housed in ancient barns and cramped and obstructed by the scantiness of resources which hardly permit it to assume the dignity of a common school...
...summarize, we may say that the athletes devote too much time to the development of special powers, and sometimes carry their exercises to excess; that the sporting men rely upon their inheritance, physical and financial, and make no attempt to renew their capital; that the scholars, as a class, take too little exercise; and that the idlers take no exercise at all. When we consider the relative numbers in these several classes in all our colleges, it is safe to conclude that, of the whole number of students, not more than ten per cent. give any attention whatever to physical...
...illustrations of the granite quarries from which the materials for the temples were obtained, and the method of quarrying was shown to be precisely the same as that employed at Quincy at present. The island of Philae with its temple of Isis was next illustrated. In this temple no attempt at symmetry was made, and the effect is most pleasing, giving us the most beautiful temple remaining in Egypt. Passing still farther on, various remains of the time of the Ptolemies were illustrated and one temple of the time of Rameses the Great. This is remarkable for containing the oldest...