Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result of this test," says Dr. Lee, "certainly suggests that our preparatory schools might do much toward preventing poor habits of bodily use and also that it is desirable for the college to attempt correction...
...well. To be sure, their poor bodily mechanics is offset by their youth and otherwise good physical condition. The result of this test certainly suggests that our preparatory schools might do much toward preventing poor habits of bodily use and also that it is desirable for the college to attempt correction...
...form of exercise which each Freshman needed. There is, of course, a large group of Freshmen who need only regular exercise, but among the others one finds all sorts of needs, varying from careful supervision in organized sports to special exercises for the delicate or the physically handicapped. Every attempt has been made to combine the obvious need of the individual and his own inclinations. Mr. Geer and his associates have met their problem of physical training very well and are succeeding in making physical training interesting as well as beneficial. The key-note of the work has been that...
...administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers. The Mayor has ordered a "sweeping investigation," a "drastic inquiry" into this barefaced attempt to pick the public's pocket. Altogether the affair is pictured as the most scandalous thing since the Tweed Ring...
...attempt will be made this spring to introduce into the preparatory schools this new stroke for use during the coming seasons. As there are six crew "H" men in college representing six different school, it is probable that the brunt of this work of propaganda will fall on them...