Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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APROPOS of the Socialist excitement in Germany, and the newly formed organizations in the West, "La Commune" has been prospecting for a raid on the arms of the Rifle Corps. Through the vigilance of General Lister the attempt was detected in season to prevent the raid, and the arms have been removed for the summer to a place of safety. The Corps possesses two hundred stand of arms, breech-loading Peabody rifles, which are valued at five thousand dollars...
...first is a communication that betrays plainly the writer's class. It is a kindly attempt on the author's part to offer a few hints to the Faculty for which they will doubtless be grateful...
...earning seven runs; Downer and Brown earning clean home-runs, and Downer making another home-run on what should have been a single base-hit, the ball bounding sideways and thus passing Fessenden. Howe played pluckily behind the bat, and caught Ernst's pitching remarkably well for a first attempt. Thayer, Wright, Alger, Latham, and Holden played well in the field. Carter was the only man on the Yale Nine who failed to get in a base-hit; the excellence of his pitching, however, fully atoned for his poor success at the bat. Hutchison made a good stop and caught...
...responding quickly to the demands upon preparatory schools made by increasing the standard for admission at this and other colleges. It is proposed to raise at the celebration an endowment large enough to put Andover on a level with the best-equipped schools in the country; and if the attempt should succeed, as succeed it will, Harvard must gain by the increased number of students that will be prepared to enter here...
...over left field, which might ha e been a home run, had he not stopped running, supposing it to be a foul. Cutts and Clarke made base-hits in the third inning; Hamill struck out; Cutts stole third base, and scored on Tyng's wild throw to Latham in attempting to throw Clarke out at second; Hunt flied to Latham; Funkhouser reached first on Thayer's fumble; Dodge hit hard for right centre, but was put out by a splendid catch by Latham. Latham's splendid stop of Clarke's base-hit, and his subsequent difficult fly-catches, saved Harvard...