Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...excellent; two sea-stories by H. V. Morgan '10, the second of which, "The Unknown Seas," is written with distinct artistic truth. The last sentence, presumably meant to mitigate the horror, means nothing. There is also, by A. E. Manheimer, '09, one football story which is a rather vague attempt at character drawing. The two bits of verse are not noteworthy. The articles deserving of comment are the Editorial and Varied Outlooks. The first draws its theme from Mr. Wister's remarks, and then goes on to discuss the college career. The conclusion is dark College is a place...
...seems almost hopeless for a team which has had no more practice than our hockey players to attempt to play an intercollegiate game. Even more than last year has Harvard been handicapped by lack of ice, a condition which has not been so keenly felt by our opponents who have the advantage of being within reach of an indoor rink--at least for occasional practices...
...Cobden-Sanderson next traced the changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...
...seems unduly to emphasize the political aspect of their emigration; and he tends to make Harvard's seriousness rather more solemn than one should expect in an eternal benefactor of youth, "bearing contentment in his heart." I will not speak of occasional infelicities of phrase in this commendable attempt to give expression to the feelings of gratitude and the sense of duty which are our common inheritance...
Dissatisfaction, however evident, will be of no avail unless its effect appears in the plans for another season. As a rule the captain appoints the coach, and, although he may attempt to follow a certain policy, his choice will necessarily have in view the success of his own team or his personal inclinations. We should do well to secure one of the best graduate players of each season to coach the next team, but the choice of both head coach and field coach should not lie entirely with the captain. A suggestion which we print in another column...