Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have practically the same teams on our schedules this year as formerly. No exclusiveness as to schedule, games, or rules is intended. Yale, Princeton, and the university simply want to play one another and have found it of great advantage to have the same set of rules. By attempting to make the union close is meant not making it in the least exclusive but merely attaining more perfect co-operation for mutual benefit. The purpose of the triangular arrangement is not to attempt to dictate rules but to agree to certain regulations which are peculiarly applicable to the three universities...
Scholarly achievement and promise formed the basis for election, and a conscientious attempt has been made to do justice to every eligible man. In determining the elections scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate ground for decision, but the difficulty of the courses taken has been given due consideration. Intellectual achievement in extra curriculum pursuits has been considered in the decisions, although these activities were in no way regarded as making up for marked deficiencies in scholastic ratings...
...mutual understanding between Yale, Princeton, and the University was not the result of an attempt to foster this exclusiveness in athletics, but to establish between themselves uniform legislation and control of sports. That is, to ensure the same regulations of athletics at each of the universities, and thereby work upon a common basis. This cause of alliance is just as applicable in the case of the five colleges mentioned as it was with the three who have taken the lead in this respect...
...would seem that the time has come for a final attempt to right conditions definitely or, the alternative, a frank admission that we cannot succeed with what we have. The danger of the situation lies in the passive acceptance of failure. D. M. LITTLE...
...University has been called upon to bear as heavy a toll of its finest figures as perhaps any academic organization in the country. While the war casualties are still appearing we have the news of the death, first of a distinguished graduate and now of a cherished teacher. Any attempt to express our sorrow or adequately to appreciate their lives must end in failure. Greatness we may attribute to a historical figure. It is not enough to assign to one we knew personally and admired in the intimate relations of our daily lives...