Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cambridge high jumpers are T. M. Jennings and A. B. Johnston. Johnston will also attempt to throw the sixteenpound hammer. He approaches his take off at a slant, has no great amount of spring, and clears the bar all doubled up, his body bent, as if he would grasp his feet and lift himself over. He gives the impression of attempting to sit on the bar. Jennings jumps in better form, taking off usually straight ahead, although he sometimes affects the slanting run. It is probable that the high jump will go to Cambridge, as neither Thompson nor Sheldon...
...This attempt of the association to form a Bureau of Information is the first of its kind but that it its appreciated is shown by the large number of men who avail themselves of the opportunity afforded. The bureau will continue through Thursday, September 26, the morning of registration...
...Sargent announces that the Gymnasium will not be finished for some time. Until it is finished no assignment of lockers will be made so that no one will gain anything by going to the janitor to attempt to get a locker. It is not probably that the Gymnasium will be open for exercise until the addition is completed...
...seconds; Harvard's time was 22 minutes, 5 seconds. Yale went to the front with a good lead almost in the first twenty strokes which they continued to increase up to the two-mile flag, where Harvard began to close up the gap a bit. Harvard made another attempt to catch the Yale boat at the three-mile flag, and succeeded in gaining a few seconds, which they held to the three-and-a-hald-mile flag. Thereafter Yale continued to pull away steadily, notwithstanding Harvard's desperate spurt toward the finish. An occasional break between four and five...
...lower half of the course, at about slack water tonight, Harvard covered two miles under 11 minutes, but it is doubtful if that pace could be continued through four miles. Harvard did not attempt to continue it, but stopped and Watson coached them from the launch. Yale rowed her best time on the upper course tonight, when she struck a fast gait and rowed far up the river. Harvard's work of the past two days has greatly improved the crew's form and the speed of the boat, for it did the course today in faster time than...