Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is the proposal, which has been so er roneously characterized as an attempt to shut out Yale altogether from playing in New York on Thanksgiving...
Social questions are in reality, moral ones. Even behind all economic and political questions, lies the fact that the conscience of the country is pricked with shame. All these things find a partial solution in an attempt to form an ethical theory...
...These long courses in short terms, the attempt to keep the University under full steam through the moist heat of a Chicago summer, the encouragement given to the student to compress four years' work into three years - the whole scheme breathes that nervous, restless haste which is one of the most deplorable features of American life; and when our universities come to forget that "school" means leisure, and that high-thinking cannot be hurried, one of the last safeguards against the national vice of over-pressure will be lost...
...probable that the literary exercises on Class-day are due to an attempt by the Overseers, beginning in 1754, to improve the elocution of the students by requiring the public recitation of dialogues, translated from Latin into English; for Class-day was then less a Senior's day than now, and was chiefly under the control of the college authorities. This very likely suggested the idea to the undergraduates and created among them an ambition for further displays of oratory...
...more runs were added to Boston's score in the third inning. Lowe flied out to Trafford. Tucker followed with a two bagger and scored on Stovey's single to left field. The latter took second on the attempt to cut off Tucker, and a wild throw by Trafford to Mason let Stovey score. Quinn struck out and Bennett got his base on balls. Stivetts advanced him a base and here the two men were left, as McCarthy struck...