Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Society cannot prescribe to men of ability the rewards they shall receive for competence, but must accept the terms imposed by the men themselves. This overthrows a cardinal point in the socialistic creed, which the socialist attempt to argue around...
...Thomas '07, E. S. Barber '08, L. D. Cox '08, L. Rome '08, D. L. Cobb '09, H. R. Eisner '09, H. E. Porter '09, A. W. Sampson '09, S. S. Sheip '09, and S. Smith '09. So few candidates for the Freshman team reported that no attempt was made to form a regular squad...
...line of each stanza, on the other hand, and the insistent refrain, "O thalassa, thalassa," are decidedly effective, and only fail to be completely successful, perhaps, from the fact that they seem a bit too consciously employed. These, however, are minor faults in a poem which, as a successful attempt to treat a great theme worthily, is decidedly unusual in undergraduate verse...
...communication in the CRIMSON of February 1 calls attention to the numerous restrictions which burden our athletics. Some examples are the basketball team's lack of a regular coach, and the recent attempt to prevent minor teams from having training tables. Possibly these minor teams are of no great importance, but they interest a sufficient number of men, and do enough good, to deserve something better than systematic discouragement. Major sports meet with the same narrow minded discouragement...
...force for manliness and for righteousness; such was not the most typical of the decadents, Oscar Wilde. Of the stories, "The Treasure Voyage" by E. G. Curtis '09 and "The Difference" by E. B. Sheldon '08, it is enough to say that the first shows far more definite attempt at plot and the second more vigorous character drawing than one is accustomed to find in undergraduate productions...