Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very pretty piece of fielding was shown by Curtis and Wingate in the fourth inning. Doherty was on third when Middlebrook hit sharply to Curtis. The runner was so fast that it was impossible to attempt to catch him at first, yet Curtis made a feint to throw to Milholland, and then snapped the ball to Wingate, Doherty being caught off the base...
...striving to return to the old state of things. The success of the attempt is largely due to President Lowell, who has so able enlarged and continued the efforts of Mr. Hyde in the work of supplying exchange professors at the University, among whom are some of the greatest scholars of both countries...
...from adaptations, has been seriously weakened by the theory of evolution and at present only the argument from an ordered system of laws is of importance. The argument based on the nature of man has changed from its earlier form of reliance upon innate ideas to a highly metaphysical attempt to present God as the necessary implication of knowledge, considered as knowledge. But both great lines of argument meet the problem of evil which neither has succeeded in solving. Natural theology may prove divine intelligence but so far it has not proved benevolence...
...important point, there will appear a small group of men who do incalculable evil by their unprincipled methods. A natural question, then, arises: what makes these few men so disproportionately effective? It is because the undergraduate standard of honesty is not universally positive enough to crush every attempt at deception. We quote from one of the many excellent opinions expressed in the 1910 Class Report: "The reason why men keep on taking books from libraries, or tearing pages out of books for other people's use as well as their own, . . . why men do not hesitate to hand in other...
...pride that we record the fact that the social service movement described in this morning's CRIMSON is to have a Harvard man at its head. It is impossible now to forecast exactly what will be accomplished by the new departure, but this essentially practical attempt to direct the efforts of college graduates to social service work has everything in his favor. Each year are graduated from Harvard men who have taken part while in College in Brooks House work. At present, the great majority of these men never pursue the work after graduation. This cessation of social endeavor...