Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...books for this library are regularly obtained in the clothing collections which are made every year. In the past year an attempt was made to induce the Seniors to contribute the books they were through with to the Loan Library. Quite a number of books were obtained, but not as many as might have been, because of the general rush at the close of the year. It is hoped that this idea may be worked out much more successfully this coming June, by having special collectors...
...interested in chapel that at last they have taken active steps to see whether or not we cannot be sure that each day will call men to chapel to hear a man whom the undergraduates want to hear. I think that nothing proves more conclusively the wisdom of this attempt than the almost enormous attendance which greets Professor Palmer and President Lowell and the others who are chosen to lead the services during early weeks of the college year. This step toward careful and judicious selection of preachers was conceived in the early meetings of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet...
...CRIMSON pointed out recently, the refereeing of intercollegiate hockey games has not been satisfactory; the need of competent officials has been very apparent. It is gratifying to note that an attempt is to be made to standardize the hockey refereeing in the future, and that a conference of the captains of the Yale, Princeton and Harvard teams is to be held within a month in which efficient referees will be selected for the games next winter. Each of the three colleges is to name two men who are qualified to referee; these men, who will be required to keep...
...committee also voted that there shall be no organized cheering at the hockey games in the Arena. The reasons for this adverse vote are three: first, that the attempt this year proved a failure; in the second place, that there is no point to the cheering except in the Yale games, and without practice in the smaller games, which is impracticable; it is unsuccessful; and finally, it is very difficult to secure a concentrated cheering section in the Arena...
...with any particular skill. The style in description and conversation is light and the characters are cleverly sketched, although the close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing up their mysteries by means of a letter, and both lack vigor and compactness. Whatever the merits and demerits of the stories, however, the Advocate has been unwise in selecting three so similar. Had O. Henry himself written them we would...