Word: attempt
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Yale will probably gain most through the line and is hardly likely to attempt to run around the ends. The strength of the team is in the five centre men, but the backs are now playing a strong game and the ends have made a great improvement, as was shown by their excellent work in the Princeton game...
...Ellis and Stillman did some punting and all the other backs took a little practice in this department. Ellis was not at all reliable, but succeeded in getting off several long, twisting punts. A signal practice of fifteen minutes under Daly's direction was then gone through, and an attempt was made to get more speed in the plays. All of the injured men, including Kendall and Eaton, took part in the preliminary work, and all were in very good condition...
...principal contribution to the November Monthly is a poem, "Prometheus Pyrphoros," by J. T. Stickney '95. The poem is an attempt to imagine what was contained in a lost play by Aeschylus. The versification, however, which is almost entirely of blank form, does not follow the model of the ancients. Instead of ten syllables to a verse there are more often eleven, with now and then a passage in rhyme. The style as a whole is very subtle and obscure. The basis of the poem is the fable of Prometheus: He attempts to bring light and fire to the people...
...debate centred mainly on the question whether the Filipinos would ever become capable of self-government. All the speakers did a great deal of rebuttal in their opening speeches and there was no attempt at dodging the issue by either side. The opening speech of Bruce for the negative was the best speech of the evening. Chandler's best work was done in rebuttal where he was very strong. Seasongood had a very clear delivery and presented his arguments forcibly. Fitzpatrick and Catchings brought forward good arguments but their delivery was not as clear and forceful as that...
During most of the first half the teams played poorly and neither came near scoring, both being strong on defense and weak on offensive play. Near the end of the half, however, the substitutes began to play more concertedly and began a determined attempt to score. With the ball in midfield Brayton and Devens began a series of line plunges which netted thirty yards. Gierasch's fifteen yard run then took the ball to the ten yard line, and after two plunges by Brayton, Gierasch made the touchdown...