Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Some attempt should be made this year to change the method of distributing degrees to members of the senior class on Commencement. Owing to the large numbers in the graduating classes of recent years, the wholesale distribution in Sanders Theatre has caused a scene of confusion which it is hard to reconcile with any idea of dignity attaching to the exercises of the day. The actual process of conferring the degrees is out of harmony with the general tone of the exercises. These, to be appropriate to the occasion when seniors are finally closing their college career, should be dignified...
...against Oxford and Cambridge was at first sight very pleasing. It would be so still were it not that consideration of the challenge just received leads to the feeling that Harvard can hardly accept it without a breach of collegiate courtesy. The English colleges seem to have made no attempt to obviate the difficulties in the way of accepting the intercollegiate challenge sent them, but to have refused this without due reluctance, and to have made an entirely arbitrary selection of Harvard and Yale. In so doing they are guilty of a slight to the other colleges of the intercollegiate...
...Scannell, and scored on Andy Highlands's pretty sacrifice. Rand followed with another hit and stole second. Hayes was given first on balls. With the bases full, Stevenson knocked the ball into the centre fielder's hands, but the latter muffed and Scannell scored. Paine got first on an attempted put-out and Rand came in. Hayes tried to steal in, but was put out at the plate by Mason. Stevenson, however, made the same attempt with success. Wrenn's striking out finished the inning...
...been a favorite practice ground for the Yale crews. A strong southerly breeze made the course a little too rough for the best work in shells, except well up the river. It was expected that one or both 'varsity crews might cover the full course, but they did not attempt it. Before dusk a dense fog hung over the river and land, making it dangerous for the boats...
...cannot properly take the statistical form which is most forcible. Religion must lose its true character if it is dragged into the light as a matter of how many men attend chapel daily, or how many engage in organized charitable work. True devotion or true charity shrinks from the attempt to publish it abroad as ground for self-laudation, and there could be little other reason for trying to gather statistics of religious life among Harvard students...