Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last attempt is no more of a failure than "Fair Harvard," and quite as entertaining. It follows very closely the track of its predecessor in the general plan, and even in such a small matter as the name of the hero. He is described as a "fresh, frank, noble-looking young fellow, full six feet tall, with an honest face, bright eyes, and thick, curling, chestnut hair," and is introduced talking with a "fine-looking young man, with dark side-whiskers," and "a smile which was strangely winning." They are sub-Freshmen who enter, agree to chum without having seen...
...attempt to establish a Lacrosse Club has proved a failure...
...ball and was making for their line when he was caught. He threw the ball to Rollins, who succeeded in gaining a touch-down. H. W. Cushing failed to mark the place with his heel, and on getting into the field, the Canadians charged, and thus an attempt for another goal was lost. The play was now nearly all on the Canadian side of the field. When time was called Keyes had obtained a touch-down, but it was so near the edge of the field that a place-kick was not tried; Seamans, by a masterly drop-kick...
...other man touched it first and "deaded" it. This caused some dispute, but the play soon proceeded, the Canadians still acting on the defensive. About twenty minutes after the game began, an accident occurred which seriously marred our thus far uninterrupted pleasure. Mr. Whiting, in an almost hopeless attempt to rush through three men, slipped and fell, breaking the smaller bone of the right leg just above the ankle. Fortunately a surgeon was near by, and Mr. Whiting was immediately removed from the field and properly cared for. Fourteen men, - one of them a substitute, - no goals on either side...
...subject is somewhat complicated, I shall attempt merely to bring forward a single strong argument, which seems to me clearly to settle the question...