Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Memorial Library includes not only many of Meeker's own books, but also many other volumes by American and foreign authors. A particular attempt was made to secure publications dealing with the University, its history and its graduates, and many other books of reference were included. Among the volumes are complete sets of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Stevenson, Tolstoi, Turgenieff, Austen, Poe, Kipling, Hugo, Warner, Lowell, Holmes, Smollett, Fielding, Chaucer, de Maupassant, O. Henry, Newton, Pope, Burns, Spenser, Eliot, Hawthorne, Bulwer, Lever, Harte, Voltaire and Mulhbach. The Encyclopedia Britannica and complete editions of the "Spectator" and "Tatler" are also included...
...seems that the further encouragement of nationalism will only produce painfully unrealizable ambitions. The migrations of the past have decreed that these interspersed European races should live together. The practical solution of their friction is to democratize and enlighten the federative governments under which they must live, not to attempt to divide them...
...this a time for any of us to attempt to excuse ourselves for refusing to do our duty by pointing to others who are not doing their duty. The fact that someone else is a scoundrel and a slacker is the poorest kind of a reason why I should be a scoundrel or a slacker. In fact, if there are others who are doing less than their share, that is the best reason in the world why I should do more than my share. That is the only way in which we shall ever get enough done to win this...
Even if weather conditions are favorable this afternoon none of the remaining events of the mid-winter track carnival will take place today. An attempt will be made to complete the program tomorrow afternoon, beginning at 3.30, but it may be necessary to leave a part of the schedule over till Wednesday. At any rate, the 1921 interdormitory teams and the class relay teams will run tomorrow on the board track, and the broad-jump will be held in the cage. This means that there is still an opportunity for men who have not yet done so to take...
After Friday, when the subject for the debate will be finally phrased, the University team is planning to work each night in the week in an attempt to make the best of the short time remaining before March 22. Practice debates will be so arranged that each man will speak four times a week, and thus the final arguments will be well worked into shape before March...