Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale team outplayed the University in the second half when the Crimson was making, a vain attempt to score, but in the first half both teams played equally well--or poorly--with the breaks going to Yale. The Blue eleven was the more consistently powerful organization throughout the game, but the Crimson was strong enough to hold its opponents at all times, had not luck occasionally interfered. The winning touchdown was due to a Yale fumble recovered by a Yale player, Gates, but the ability of the Blue team to force the ball over the goal line after this fumble...
Yale took no chances in the final period and played a waiting game, letting the University spend all its energies on an attempt to advance by forward passing, all to no avail. The game ended with the ball in Yale's possession on her own 47-yard line...
...reassured after reading President Lowell's communication in today's issue. The entire question is a delicate one to solve, for the War Department in the past has only directed military training in Land Grant Colleges and the system of the new training units is the first attempt to standardize the instruction in independent institutions...
...star as he is, "Step This Way" cannot escape criticism because of the presence of its principal. An attempt to revive "The Girl Behind the Counter" surely ought to have aimed higher than this production has. Its first failing is in a lack of support, for, with the exception of Sam Dody's dancing and the few songs of Marguerite Farrell, the rest of the work is very mediocre, especially so in contrast with the clever performance of inimitable Lew Fields. Alice Fischer as Mrs. Schniff just misses success, for occasionally she shows a truly comic gleam, but she often...
...expression of the "little theatre" movement, which has made itself so strongly felt in America. It is true that the scenery and settings are more meagre than those to which we are accustomed; for emphasis is placed upon the acting rather than upon the husk of the production. An attempt, is made to get away from present-day realism--to turn to simpler more imaginative forms which have a charm of expression that characterizes the strolling players of the Elizabethan Era. A feeling of intimacy is established between actor and audience...