Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this State went into the room of a freshman whom they judged to be verdant. After the sophomores had got into the room the freshman asked what they wished. "Oh, we have come to put you through," was the reply. The freshman told them they had better not attempt anything, but they scornfully refused to listen to advice from a member of a lower class, and made a rush for the youth whom they took to be green. With a blow he laid one of the bold sophs upon his back. In the melee that followed the light was overturned...
...concerts, it is needless to say, will be exceptionally good ones, and we advise all who have not yet procured tickets to do so at once. If the support given to the project this year is not more hearty than it was last, we fear that a third attempt will hardly be made...
...gentlemanly manner, it is a matter that, under ordinary circumstances, would concern these freshmen alone. But in the present case other considerations necessarily arose. It is but a short time since the last freshman theatre party occurred. In many respects the party of Thursday night looked like an attempt at a revival of the custom. So much so, indeed, that the sophomore class considered it a matter of sufficient importance to call a class meeting Thursday afternoon, and endeavor to dissuade the freshmen from their project. The safer course would seem to be for succeeding freshman classes for some years...
...attempt was made to assassinate the king of Servia yesterday. It is suspected that the attack was made from political motives...
...Harvard in the outside world as the continuation of this harmful custom. To '85 belongs the honor of first abandoning it. Let not the charge be laid upon '86 of reviving the practice after once the precedent had been established to ensure its discontinuance. We feel assured that any attempt of this sort on the part of '86 would meet with the unanimous condemnation of all the rest of the college. The honor of Harvard College demands that the practice be stopped...