Word: attempting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with great care the hymnal which Edward Everett Hall, Phillips Brooks, Alexander McKenzie, and George A. Gordon had compiled nine years before, and now, after seventeen years that have seen even greater changes in the University, it is no wonder that the need of revision is again felt. No attempt was made by the second group of compilers to provide for the families and friends of the professors who compose so large a part of the Sunday morning congregations. No particular use was apparent at that time for hymns appropriate to burial, communion and other special services, while there seems...
...discussing how college men may keep in touch with advanced thought and be of service in throwing light on contemporary problems, Mr. Steffens made two points. First, there is not enough intellectual curiosity on the part of the students. Second, courses often attempt to cover the past so thoroughly that they never reach the present, and the professors' views on the subject. The student body should attempt to take the initiative in the matter, and co-operate with the Faculty in obtaining upto-date courses in which the professors have opportunity to discuss recent theories and problems...
...Lafayette's failure to score was due entirely to her weakness in the kicking department of the game. Three times by successful series of forward passes, closely resembling those executed by Williams in the Harvard game, she brought the ball within scoring distance of the Yale goal, but each attempt at a kick from placement went wild...
...rest of the number should not be neglected. Mr. Harris's story, "The Cripple,"--a courageous attempt to reproduce Herculaneum on the last night of its existence--is promise which rises encouragingly near to performance; Mr. Weston's "Whitsuntide in Germany" is pleasing, if not important; Mr. Pichel's "The Quake in Unbelief" has life enough to make up for its crudeness; Mr. Wright's "Parsifal," in terza rima with one verse left unrhymed, is so much larger and more imaginative than most undergraduate poetry that one may hopefully overlook its faults. Many readers will find Mr. Seldes's discussion...
...much too early, of course, to obtain definite registration figures, but it may be said that, with two notable exceptions, all of our institutions of higher learning have made gains in enrolment. Harvard's Freshman class is larger and more representative than ever before. The University's attempt to attract to its halls men from the West and from the public high schools in general is surely proving successful. Yale expects about two hundred more students than it had last year. At Wellesley, Tufts, Dartmouth, Bates, Colby, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Vermont, Boston University, in fact at all colleges except Williams...