Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...suggestion has come from a well known preparatory school pointing out what appears to be a valuable field for effort on the part of college men. It is suggested that some methodical attempt be made to encourage school debating, and to inaugurate interscholastic debates...
...advance. Yesterday afternoon members of the course received cards advertising a review of the course and a full set of answers to the examination questions, for five dollars. Without questioning the practice of tutoring for examinations, I wish to express my opinion that in the present case an attempt has been made to carry it beyond the bounds of honor. The difference between handing in answers to these questions which one has not worked up himself and handing in as one's own a thesis that another man has written, is not clear...
...editorial the frank statement is made that "The Advocate and the Monthly certainly are not so crude as the periodicals" of some of the smaller " 'universities,' but they are not one iota more accurate than these periodicals in their attempt to represent the literary standard which one has a right to expect of the college...
...attempt to attribute the causes of athletic failure at Harvard to one particular condition has hitherto resulted in nothing, and those familiar with the state of affairs have been forced to the conclusion that a combination of causes has produced the results which confront us today. The various explanations given have, logically enough, all been based on the exposition of conditions which exist, or are supposed to exist, at Harvard, and not at other colleges...
...must strike out on our own lines and inaugurate some beneficial change which shall not be merely an attempt to reproduce inefficiently conditions existing elsewhere. Such is the reason which has led to the movement for a graduate athletic association...