Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Garcelon says of the class, "No attempt is made to make athletes of the men, but rather to enable them to handle themselves in all kinds of sports...
...Student Council. The book is divided into twelve parts, each dealing with a separate department of college organization and interest. Chief among its features is the complete classification of all the social, registered, and preparatory school clubs in the University, as this is the first time that any definite attempt has been made to keep an accurate record of these organizations together with the lists of their officers and members. By "registered clubs" it is meant not social, athletic, or editorial organizations, but scientific, linguistic, cultural, musical, debating, speaking and territorial clubs, amounting to about 60 in all. The section...
...following twenty-two Seniors and eight Juniors have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Scholarly achievement and scholarly promise have been the basis of election, and a conscientious attempt has been made to do justice to every eligible name. In determining the elections, scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate grounds for decision; the difficulty of the courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also received due consideration. The names are arranged alphabetically and not according to rank or order of election...
...yard line. A forward pass was tried, however, but went wrong. Yale also came near scoring near the opening of the game, when one of Howe's kicks went over Gardner's head and was recovered by a Yale man. Other than these two occasions was Potter's attempt at a goal from field there has been no chance to score. Yale and Harvard both fought hard and both elevens were playing splendid football. Camp and Felton shared the honors in the punting department as neither gained any material advantage in their kicks. Felton's punts went higher and were...
Howe's Second Attempt Fails...