Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...attention to those on the second day which are open to several outside associations. By thus throwing our men into direct competition with other athletes, we look to see our representatives do, not only themselves, but the College justice. The Executive Committee are certainly deserving of praise for this attempt to stimulate our athletic contests, as well as for the prompt and thorough manner with which they have attended to the track, and all pertaining to the meeting so long beforehand...
...rule in regard to throwing the hammer does not seem to us quite as it should be: "Letting go of the hammer in an attempt counts as a 'try'." When the "solid iron sphere, weighing sixteen pounds," strikes a spectator in the head, we think it extremely likely that that individual, if able to collect his ideas, would look upon it as a 'throw'. After several spectators in the immediate neighborhood had been carried off prostrated by these 'tries,' the judges might with reason decide that the contestant had done enough for that afternoon, as the spectators seemed not hurt...
...management of a Glee Club, like that of a University Crew, involves such delicate diplomacy that no one ought to be greatly surprised by this action, though few, it is to be hoped, will attempt to justify it. But the authoritative position assumed by those members of the "Quartette" above alluded to, betrays, to say the least, an ungenerous disposition...
...constitution, at no time strong, suffered from a severe illness at the end of his Senior year. Soon after graduating he went to Europe, and, after a few months spent in a partially successful attempt to recover his health, he studied in Paris and Dresden, applying himself to that which he thought would be of most assistance to him in his intended journalistic career, and was still pursuing those studies at the time of his death...
...given him an alms, or its acceptance a humiliation. The President's words on this subject were well chosen and directly to the point. My purpose is rather to deny that money given in scholarships is in any sense a charity, and to denounce in the strongest terms any attempt by undergraduate or outsider to arouse or increase that notion. It is a false one, wholly unworthy of the men who advance it. For what was the purpose of the founders of these scholarships? They were wealthy men interested in the cause of education, not in the education...