Word: attempt
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...money for promoting a school of higher study. The true reason lay in the fact that at that time no one on this side of the Atlantic felt the need of such an institution. A college course was considered amply sufficient to supply the wants of students, and no attempt was made to rival or even imitate the universities of Germany in their provision for post-graduate study...
...Daly returned the kick-off to Williams' forty-five-yard line, and after Harvard had regained the ball on downs, he tried a drop-kick goal from the field which was blocked. Two minutes later, Harvard secured the ball at the same place, and Daly made a second unsuccessful attempt at a goal. Harvard then began another attack on the Williams line. E. Kendall and Graydon carried the ball fifty yards on short plunges, and I. Kendall made the touchdown from the one-yard line. The half ended soon after the next kick...
...Freshman rowing at the Weld opened yesterday with two eight-oared crews, one four-oared crew, and several substitutes out. All the men who had rowed before were put in one boat, but no further attempt was made to grade the men. A. O. Stevens '97 coached from the "John Harvard" and D. D. Evans '01 from a single...
Although the work of the first eleven yesterday afternoon was slightly improved, serious injuries to Hallowell and Howe checked the satisfaction caused by the encouraging practice. Hallowell sprained his left ankle in the first half, when blocking Daly's attempt at a goal from the field. As he will not be able to play for about three weeks, he will be kept out of all the early games and possibly the one with Pennsylvania. A few minutes after Hallowell was taken from the field, C. H. Howe '04, centre on the third team, broke a bone in his right...
Again by the adoption of attractive and easy methods of work, with a careful regard to individual trails, the attempt to make education less forbidding, carried too far has resulted in robbing education of much of its mental discipline. The children brought up "along the lines of least resistance" are most often the intellectually spoiled children, "flabby of mind and will." "Education should first and foremost train; and training had for its very substance the overcoming of obstacles; furthermore, every specialty is better mastered, better understood in its relation to human life and achievement, by the man who has worked...