Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...made singles in the next inning, and Upton a two-bagger; and three more runs resulted. Howland started off the third inning with a hit, and Mason followed him with a single to left field. Trafford got to first on Howland's out; Upton got a life on the attempt to put out Mason. With three men on bases Alward made a cracking home run to right-centre and all the men scored. In the fifth inning Dean made a two-bagger, Linn a three-bagger, and Howland and Mason singles. Dean and Linn scored. Dean scored Harvard's last...
...Lehmann in his "Rowing at Cambridge" tells of the origin of college and university crew racing in 1830 and he also draws a picture of an imaginary freshman's first attempt at handling the oar, his troubles and final successes. The first of the Cambridge races are the Lent races, rowed at thend of February, in which thirty on. boats take part. Then come the May races, the Colquhoun races, and the university trial eights races. This last is a race between two picked crews selected by the president of the university boat club from the promising men of every...
...games of football annually, one at Cambridge and one at New Haven. Yale urged that New York, by reason of the large body of its graduates resident in or near that city, was to Yale what Boston is to Harvard, and was unwilling to negotiate further until an attempt had been made to induce the Harvard Athletic Committee to make an exception to the so-called New England rule and allow a football game in New York on Thanksgiving Day. In difference to this wish of Yale and to the strong desire of Harvard graduates resident in New York...
...touch with all social classes. After the trial of the anarchists Mr. Salter, impelled altogether by what he considered the interests of judicial fair play, in the face of the feverish excitement and prejudices of the people, risked his popularity and influence by taking a leading part in the attempt to have some of the sentences commute. His deep study of philosophy and strong personality ought to attract a large audience this evening...
...next event was the light-weight wrestling. T. J. Stead, '91, and A. L. Shapleigh, '92, were the only contestants. Shapleigh got the first fall in 1 minute, 30 seconds, without much trouble. Shapleigh threw Stead a second time in 40 seconds after a vain attempt by Stead to make a bridge. As J. Crane, '90, and O. W. Shead, '93, had withdrawn, the event went to Shapleigh...