Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...learn with pleasure of the attempt the Department of English is making to have one of the old English comedies reproduced here. The play, though not performed by Harvard men, would in its effect be similar to the Latin play of last year and the Greek play which the Classical department had previously put upon the stage. It would doubtless lead to a quickening of interest in the entire English play literature of the period to which Ben Jonson belonged; and to this literature it would lend a character of reality which would be the best possible stimulus to students...
...intention to have the stage setting of the play a careful reproduction of that of an old London theatre. Mr. Sargent's company gave one performance of the "Silent Woman" in New York recently, but there was no such attempt at an elaborate reproduction of the old setting. If the play is successfully given, it will be the first accurate revival of an Elizabethan play, Shakespeare excepted, that has ever been seen in this country...
...winter. At that time the many forms of outdoor athletics received all the attention of the students, and the natural result was neglect of the winter meeting. The Athletic Association not long ago found itself obliged to give up the third of the indoor meetings. Last year the attempt was made to rouse enough interest to carry through two meetings successfully, but the Association has at last wisely abandoned...
...been found that the rowing machines run down when they are used for any considerable time, so that when the crews row a thousand strokes they are not working so hard at the finish as at the start. There has been no attempt to have the machines changed, but the attention of the coaches has been called to the matter...
...committee on cricket, tennis and shooting will make an attempt this year to revive the failing interest in shooting by holding two matches in the spring, the winners of which will be chosen to represent the university in the intercollegiate match next fall. It is also hoped to get a strong couple of tennis players, and to that end competitive contests will be held during the spring in this sport as well. For the cricket team twenty men are at present available and more are expected to present themselves...