Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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About 40 candidates for the Freshman crew reported for voluntary practice on the machines at the Newell boathouse yesterday afternoon. No attempt was made to grade the men, each candidate being given individual attention by Coaches Wray and Stephenson. Several members of the University crew, including E. C. Bacon '10, who will have entire charge of the Freshman rowing until the election of a captain, were present to assist in the coaching by illustrating the stroke on the machines. Besides the Freshman candidates, eight members of the University squad practiced on the machines...
Harvard is grossly misrepresented and misunderstood in the South, and some attempt ought to be made to overcome this. The presence of the Glee Club in many cities in the South would do much to abolish the false impressions that have gathered strength from the inactivity of Harvard men in the South, from the lack of attention paid to the South by Cambridge organizations in tours and from the activity of certain other large institutions not far from Boston...