Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attempt will be made to have an arrangement by which members of the University will have first choice of seats...
...practice in base-sliding was held for the first time yesterday. The battery squads, which include both University and Freshman candidates, have been given exceedingly light work, and particular attention has been paid to drilling them in the correct form. The pitchers have not as yet been allowed to attempt swift or curved balls...
...simplicity. The stories in the number are poor. "The Play" is an elaborately constructed rack whereon are hung a few, sometimes effective jokes. "The Adventure of the Young man and the Spasmodic Lady" and "The Curious History of a Selfish Man" are immature and crude: one is exaggerated attempt at farce, the other a sort of tragic sketch handled without skill. "The Three Worlds" ruins by a most clumsy climax a sketch of power...
...schedule of lecture hours. The chief evil of the present system is an injurious interference with the liberty of choice of the individual student among the courses nominally open to him, on account of congestion of most of the lectures within a small range of hours. The attempt to use the hour from 7.45 to 8.45 has failed; and a motion to give each full course two morning hours and one afternoon hour was defeated by a large vote, in spite of the fact that it would put all courses on a level as regards desirability of position...
Practice for the University basketball squad will be held as usual this afternoon at 5.30 o'clock. Mr. F. B. Barnes of the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., who coached the team last week, will attend practice again this week and attempt to improve the team work before the game with Princeton in the Gymnasium next Friday night. Randall and Bigelow, who were slightly injured in the Columbia game will probably be in condition to play in a few days. The intercollegiate league standing is now as follows: Won. Lost. Pennsylvania, 2 0 Cornell, 2 0 Columbia, 1 0 Princeton...