Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...second number of a modest little journal called the Lehigh Journal has come to hand. Let it not attempt too much, is our advice (gratis...
...Yale Record of this week is a good number. Among other things it discusses the place of the next Regatta, approves of New London, and thinks that extortion would be the chief feature of a Regatta at Saratoga. It loses its temper in an attempt to "rough" the Magenta for venturing to say that in its last number it indulged "a wee bit in braggadocio," and makes one remark which may have been funny when it first appeared in Yale papers, though we have forgotten, and another which we do not repeat, because we are unwilling to believe that more...
...samples of the Little Masters. They were men of industry and some artistic ability, who imitated Durer as far as they could, always preferring to make miniature engravings rather than larger ones. It is very amusing to pass from Durer's Melencolia to J. Behau's attempt at the same. After standing in awe before the sad glance of Durer's figure with its resting wings, that still have power to bear it through endless wandering, with the neglected implements of human science cast on the earth, and with its never-to-be-forgotten wreath, - after the feelings aroused...
...Packer Quarterly lies before us, and we have no hesitation in pronouncing it the best exchange which has come to our table this year. Its articles are written upon subjects to which its fair contributors show themselves able to do justice; there is no attempt made to soar upon wings which the greatest men of the times have lacked strength to propel, while at the same time, that other extreme, so suggestive of elementary spelling-books and "puss-in-the-corner," is nowhere to be met with in its pages. It is very interesting, extremely sensible, and thoroughly feminine...
...would be considered a ridiculous proposition if any one should urge upon the students here to try to take possession of the caucuses in Cambridge, and swamp the regular politicians of the First Ward, and yet it is not merely possible, but quite likely, that such an attempt would be successful, to say nothing of the benefits sure to accrue to the ward from such action. Wherein lies the difference between an appeal to students and an appeal to the "educated," who are, after all, only students who have graduated from college, and forgotten much if not most of what...