Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland will speak this evening on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Ford, and other Elizabethan dramatists. The lecture-which will be an attempt to compare Shakespeare with lesser Elizabethans-will include comment on performances, an anecdote or two of well-known players, and reading from "Macbeth," "The Duchess of Malfi," and a "Woman Killed with Kindness...
...TUESDAY.Modern Language Conference. The Latest Attempt to find Balder. Reports on Periodicals. Professor Kittredge. Sever...
...number of years ago by Professor Thayer, and which used to meet every Sunday afternoon in the chapel of Dr. McKenzie's church. Three years ago another class was instituted and conducted by Professor Lyon, but after the first winter fell into abeyance and from then until now no attempt has been made to have a regularly formed Bible Class...
...College Kodaks have been supplanted by "Atrabilia. Being stray leaves from the note book of a cynic who reformed on attaining his majority." The change in the name is interesting, but the ten "stray leaves" do not show any marked improvement over the Kodaks. Though none of them attempt to be humorous, several are very pleasing. The other prose articles are "Aunt Mary," by G. B. Philbrook, and two sketches by H. B. Eddy; one of the latter being an unnecessary contribution to the literature of Adam...
These rules will at once be recognized as an attempt at a solution of the problem of excluding professionalism in college athletics. The definition of an amateur in rule 1 was made after a careful investigation of all sides of the question. It is as complete as possible. Rule 2 contains some old rules and some that are new. The first and second clauses are simply restatements of existing restrictions. The second is the rule requiring all men who are on probation to refrain from athletic contests. The third is entirely new. Its object plainly is to prevent men from...