Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lighter and more wholesome vein, especially some that describe college life as it really is. For the rest of the number J. A. Macy '99 contributes a rather amusing little dialogue, R. T. Fisher '98 a slight but well-written sketch, and A. G. Fuller 1900 a fairly successful attempt at weirdness of effect. Besides these, two and a half pages are occupied with an exposition on mountain climbing which might be of interest to the writer. The Kodaks and the poetry are about as good as usual, and, with a short but rather ambitious story describing the troubles...
...uncertainty which has existed throughout the country for the past few years. Under such adverse circumstances they feel that it would be worse than useless to begin so important a project, for it is certain that, before the committee can think of building, $200,000 must be guaranteed. An attempt to raise funds at this time could hardly be successful, and the committee therefore feel that it is best to wait for more favorable conditions. There have been rumors that the inaction of the committee was due to their uncertainty in regard to undergraduate and graduate opinion on the subject...
...several reasons this original plan has had to be greatly modified. Almost at the outset the committee met with unexpected difficulty in the matter of funds on account of the general bad times of the last few years. More recently the University Club project has rendered it inadvisable to attempt for the Brooks House much of the social work originally intended...
...first attempt at a start resulted in a foul by Worcester, but the crews got away in good style the second time. Nineteen hundred caught the water first and led by about a length at the half mile. On the last half Worcester pulled up, but the Freshmen spurted at the finish and won by half a length. They rowed about 36 strokes to the minute and kept well together. There was a tendency, however, to shorten on the finish. The Worcester crew rowed a short professional stroke...
...healthier vein than usual. Of the four main articles, only one-"A Horse Race at Hot Sulphur," by Hal Sayre, Jr., '98-is of Western life, and this without any slaughter whatever. "On Being at Home in the World," an essay by R. P. Utter '98, is an attempt to prove "that the world is a better place to be at home in than a house of four walls...