Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Appointment Office is co-operating in every way possible with the various Harvard Clubs throughout the country, and particularly with the Harvard Club of Boston, in an attempt to place members of graduates of the University in suitable positions. Those who have recently been discharged from the service and wish positions, are receiving especial aid. Further information may be secured at 11 University Hall between the hours of 10 and 1 daily...
...same time Coach Speath outlined the plans for Princeton rowing for next year. Training will commence, early in the fall, and an attempt will be made to select a heavier crew than rowed this year...
This afternoon at three-thirty o'clock the University baseball team will meet Brown at Soldiers Field in an attempt to compensate for the 5-2 defeat of Memorial Day and to even up the series with the Providence nine. Coach Duffy will send his men into the contest with only one change in the line-up. H. P. King '21 will be back at first base, replacing E. L. Bigelow '21, who played there in the first Brown game...
...safe again on English soil and were royally feted on their arrival last night in London cannot fail to appeal to the American imagination as much as to the British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather...
Hawker has contributed much toward world-progress in aviation; in his next attempt he will probably contribute more. But perhaps his greatest service has been purely unintentional. He has made two great kindred nations feel keenly how like they are, one to the other, in their basic love of good sportsmanship. He has brought Britain and America closer, perhaps, than ever before, thus imparting even more life and substance to the cordial and brotherly words uttered by President Wilson in London and Manchester last December...