Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have developed a splendid feeling of spirited work and good fellowship. We trust that Saturday's victory will strengthen this spirit, and that the men will keep it up until the intercollegiate meet, which we are again fortunate in having on our own field. Although it is useless to attempt to predict the result of this meet, we feel confident that the team that won from Yale on Saturday can and will represent Harvard worthily...
...more-over, one of these, though it is disguised under the name of the "History of Landscape Painting," is really a history of the art of John Turner. No one would term Fine Arts 3, which covers one-half the field, a comprehensive treatment of ancient art. But the attempt in Fine Arts 4 to cover really efficiently the history of painting, sculpture, architecture and stained glass windows from the days of the Basilica of Maxentius through the seventeenth century, is ludicrous. One important division it treats well,--Romanesque church architecture of the Middle Ages and Gothic Architecture in France...
...afternoon. Together with the first two Freshman crews, the University and second eights rowed downstream at about 5.30 to Harvard bridge. There the second crews stopped, but the other two crews continued downstream and rowed over the entire mile and seven-eights course to the Union Boat Club. No attempt at a time row was made by either crew, but both paddled slowly, keeping the stroke below thirty-two to the minute. The work of the University crew was very listless, especially when the stroke went as low as twenty-six or eight, all of the men seeming lifeless...
Among the poems, the most ambitious is J. H. wheelock's "Paris and Oenone," a remarkably successful attempt to treat a Greek theme in a Greek manner, even to the Introduction of a chorus. The verse is somewhat uneven, but the poem as a whole is well sustained and the handling of the chorus and the difficult stichomythia is unusually good. As a minor point it may be noted that the characterization of Paris as the "husband of Helen of Troy, mortally wounded by the arrow of Philoctetes" and of Oenone as "a demi-goddess--who can heal mortal wounds...
...were fitted up in several of the College dormitories during the last year. In fact so general and enjoyable has their use become, with one or possibly two exceptions, that we see every reason for advocating their installation in several dormitories, such as Matthews and Grays, where no effectual attempt has been made to interest the College authorities in the matter. In the Senior dormitories, the conditions are peculiar and we doubt whether common-rooms are necessary. However that may be, we do feel that the occupants of Matthews and Grays have showed poor spirit and lack of enterprise...