Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last Friday, C. H. Taylor 1900, captain of the Rifle and Pistol Club, made the following consecutive 10 shot scores in an attempt to surpass the American 50 shot pistol record: 97, 94, 95, 94, 92, 472 total. This score beats the best previous amateur performance by 4 points and the professional or world's record by 2 points. The shooting was done in the presence of witnesses...
...attempt to go into camp will be made unless at least 130 men sign. This plan has the thorough approval of President Eliot and other members of the Faculty, and to make it a thorough success, there should be from 250 to 300 men in camp...
Thus we would urge 1900 debaters not to attempt further organization, unless they see their way clear to making it as effective as has been their Sophomore Club this year...
...Parke, following for the affirmative, restated the question, and said that it did not demand a specific remedy, but only a discussion of evils and an attempt to remedy them. The people from Southeastern Europe have not benefitted the country. They have overstocked the unskilled labor market and lowered the standard of living, especially in the mining regions where English-speaking miners have been forced into destitution and misery. The affirmative does not present a capitation or an educational test alone, but an alternative one which will allow skilled laborers to enter. This will satisfy the economic need...
...tradition is broken in perhaps its most prominent features,- in flowers high up, and a "free-for-all." A substitute was tried last year, and was admittedly not satisfactory. Any further attempt to remodel these exercises means simply getting farther and farther away from the "traditional" argument The ladies who came to see the Tree exercises would not in any case see the genuine article, but merely a revised and abridged edition with the characteristic feature left out. I understand the value of traditions to be in their entity; remnants are very apt to be farcical...