Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...striking" against themselves would appear ludicrous to us, if we did not fear that it might breed among the misinformed results utterly ruinous to the purposes of the Association. What is needed is not the threat of repudiation of a bona fide debt by withdrawal, but rather an earnest attempt to insure a larger membership in order that the obligations of the Association may be more widely apportioned and the price of board for each individual be reduced to a more normal level than at present obtains...
Harvard and Yale are members of the Intercollegiate Association, but although the attempt of that association to arrange an international meet has failed, it is possible that Harvard and Yale will send a team to England next summer to compete with Oxford and Cambridge...
...Follett's verse, "Bon Voyage," is at least graceful throughout; the last two lines impress by their sincerity. Mr. Ford's "Appearances at Oxford" is an unstudied attempt to reflect the daily life of our English undergraduate cousins; occasionally the style becomes too colloquial, yet, on the whole, the article is interesting and extremely readable. The four sonnets, on familiar college types, by Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez possess a finished gaiety not often found in academic publications. "The Goody" and "The Waitress" are particularly successful. The general resemblance of the sonnets to W. E. Henley's similar series is agreeably felt...
There is undoubtedly something to be said in favor of smaller schedules. Several of the western universities have already made the attempt, but against eastern teams Michigan and Chicago, both playing small schedules, met little success. We do not wish to uphold this, however, as a criterion of their season as a whole...
...content with monopolizing the air and books of Gore Hall for hours at a time must needs appropriate for their exclusive use the volumes most in demand. As long as they are actually using the books no one can severely censure them except for dullness; but when they attempt to found a private library by stealthy and underhand methods, it is time for all fairminded frequenters of the Library, as well as the less studiously inclined, to constitute themselves into a detective agency and bring the offenders under the fire of public opinion, if not of more summary justice...