Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Crimson players at the Arena last Saturday, in a game which was really more one-sided than the score indicated. Dartmouth had a number of first-class hockey players, but they had no coach and were handicapped by lack of practice. The Dartmouth forwards, however, with no attempt at combination play, had little trouble in maneuvering past the Tiger defence to score six times, while in the Harvard game Wylde was only called upon to make two difficult stops--14 in all--from the sticks of Princeton's vanquishers. In that game Coach Winsor's men gave an almost perfect...
Juniors and men whose final year in College will be 1917-18 are eligible to room in the Yard and should attempt to do so in order to further firmly establish the tradition started by the class of 1909. So far the applications have been slow in coming in and in order to prevent much confusion on the last day the committee hopes that men will file their applications as soon as possible...
...heard accusation that the conversation of Memorial hall and of other eating places frequented by members of the university is compounded solely of sports, women, and the weather, is extended by a writer in the "Dial" to cover all the conversational attempt of educated Americans. "Bring together a group of college men, graduates of the same institution, and what do they talk about?" he inquires. "The same things as the tired business men of theatrical disrepute, sport or women, business or politics in the littlest sense of the word...
...before it, with the intention of investigating the facts rather than their interpretation. The societies of other countries have followed this admirable lead, and their combined efforts unearthed an extraordinary mass of evidence bearing on ghosts, telepathy and other manifestations of the occult. Various theories have been elaborated which attempt to explain what are regarded as incontestable facts, but so far with no very satisfactory result. The membership roll of the Society has included many of England's foremost men, Henry Sedgwick, A. J. Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Lord Rayleigh, Alfred Russell Wallace and Professor Gilbert Murray...
...twisted and prejudiced. A college with 28 straight nationalities and an additional lot of hyphenates ought to be as good as place to cultivate the spirit of world unity as a city with representatives from 33 nations among its population. And yet in neither place is there any deliberate attempt to compass that aim. It is an end missed through lack of the larger outlook upon the higher life. New Bedford Standard...