Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Northwestern University, dissatisfied with its failure to arrange a more suitable football schedule in the Western Conference in 1917, will attempt to arrange at least one, and possibly two games with leading Eastern universities next season, according to an announcement made by F. J. Murphy, head coach. Northwestern will not withdraw from the Conference but was disappointed over the continued coalition of the interests of Wisconsin, Chicago, Minnesota and Illinois, at the expense of the other five universities in the conference...
...specifically exempted from the charge, for the people of the West send their girls to these institutions, which are colleges in every sense of the word. How much personal investigation by Mr. Sunday preceded this wholesale denunciation we are, of course, unable to say. He did not attempt to go into details, nor did he state where or how he got the information on which his sensational charges were based. He denounced the New England colleges, all of them, as the rottenest in the country and as training schools for infidels, and he threatened that when he went back...
...prose, Mr. Longyear's "'Goose' Brodie" is a notably successful attempt to carry us back to the days of the African slave trade, with the difficult vehicle of Scotch dialect. The movement of the story is uninterrupted, the episodes clearly drawn, and the dialect at once consistent and unobtrusive. The tale is better than Mr. Plummer's sketch of a cat which became ship's mascot. This unpromising subject is, however, handled in a manner which, if a trifle juvenile, is far from puerile. The way in which cross-eyed Mike "stared in royal disdain, his left eye terrifying...
...slip-ups in the spelling of names will annoy some. The volume also lacks some of the up-to-date features of last year's; for example, this fall's Phi Beta Kappa elections and other important events now a month old do not appear. Perhaps, however, the attempt at greater accuracy prevented their incorporation...
...leading character, the nypocnondriac, is a well-to-do and at bottom good-natured man who imagines himself sick, and makes life miserable for all concerned. Many of the trials and tribulations which visit him in the course of the play are the result of a deliberate attempt on the part of his friends and family to cure him of his fancied malady...