Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Club project is the best augury that Harvard will have, before long, a social centre. The committee of graduates who two years ago broached the subject, succeeded in bringing it before a great number of the alumni; but the financial state of the country made it inadvisable then to attempt to raise the large sum which will be required. Now that money conditions are more favorable, it may soon be time to go ahead: but what is needed first is to bring the project straight home to all the graduates. It occurs to me that this can best be done...
...quarter, Garrison ran the team with his usual judgment, although he should have saved his backs more by punting oftener. His defense was strong and his blocking-off particularly effective. He was called upon to kick the goals and was successful in all but the last attempt, when the ball struck the upright and bounded back. Moulton and Cabot proved to be almost invulnerable on the ends although several of Cornell's longest runs were made on fakes through tackle...
...ball into ninety-eight's territory, Adams sent it back by some excellent kicking. After about five minutes play '99 kicked and got the ball on a fumble, and then W. Adams made a long run through left tackle. Davis at this point lost ten yards on an attempt at a fake play and injured his knee, Simpson taking his place...
...points, scoring three touchdowns against the home team, the largest score ever made on a Yale field against a Yale eleven. Yale secured no more touchdowns than did the visitors but her goal-kicker guard Cadwalader was successful in every trial for goal, while Hall, who made the attempt after the Brown touchdown, failed in all but one chance...
...will be put on sale this evening contains an entertaining aggregation of Freshman jokes and even one thrust at the swaggering Sophomore with his new pipe. The centre page well illustrates a real phase of Freshman life and some of the other sketches are creditable. Perhaps the most successful attempt is a take-off on the poetry of Kipling and his admirers. Several stray hits are scattered throughout the number and a wandering member of the University is welcomed back and his exploits rehearsed in a manner truly dazzling and wonderful, but scarcely appreciable by the college at large...