Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletic representatives when they have had the misfortune to meet with superior teams. I am quite sure that if any one is calling on us to curse the football team for the honorable defeat of last Saturday, our months will be closed, like Balaam's, in the attempt. In other words, while we can all echo "Ninety-Four's" call for vigorous efforts and enthusiastic support, we can not be carried away by the exaggerations of his loyalty...
...first place, football during the season has been distinctly a college game; that is, it has been played in a gentlemanly way by unquestionably college men. Secondly, a greater attempt than ever has been made by the athletic management to limit the attendance to college men, graduate and undergraduate, and their friends. The number of persons who have attended the important games in Cambridge, in much the same way that they would be attracted to a prize fight, has been reduced to a minimum. Thirdly, all of our games have been on college grounds...
...other collegiate courses. It can hardly be urged that the standard of English C should be more lax than that of the other prescribed courses just because English C is very distasteful to many of us. For an instructor to give men D who deserve E, is to attempt to right one wrong by doing another. I say "to right one wrong," for is it not really an injustice to make so new and experimental a thing as the brief-and-forensic scheme a compulsory model to students who honestly believe that method of composition harmful to them...
...Gentner having pronounced judgment against my logic, it seems almost presumptuous on my part to attempt any defense. I will, however, venture to say that he has apparently failed to understand both the meaning and purpose of my letter...
...Department in their cooperation with the society. This benefit lies in the fact that a considerable number of men are enabled to make a serious study of the French drama under the guidance of a member of the Faculty. The result of their work will therefore be a genuine attempt to give the play selected as nearly as possible as it ought to be given. It will therefore have for the audience a literary interest which would not be possible in the case of a less serious production...