Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Boston College (17-8-1 overall, 11-5 Hockey East) faces off against Boston University (13-10-2, 8-5-2) tonight in the first round of the Beanpot at Boston Garden, the teams will attempt to break their season series tie. In the first game at B.C., the Terriers won, 6-3. The Eagles landed at B.U. and evened the local grudge war with a 3-2 victory...
...Harvard managed to chip away at the Yale lead, tying the game with just under two minutes left on the clock. Sophomore guard Maura Healy's three-point attempt to put the Crimson up missed and Yale forward Paula Kenefick countered with her own three-pointer to give her squad the lead...
...somewhat more successful attempt has been the seminar program, whose only fault lies in its inaccessability--often, students must eke through a pot-luck lottery to enroll. In addition, seminars and other small departmental courses are many times squeezed out of a student's schedule by the inevitable Core classes. The Core, invariably huge and intimidatingly impersonal, may well be the biggest culprit in depriving students of faculty contact...
...officially inaugurated, we will witness the beginning of a new era at Radcliffe. This new era might signify more holiday receptions, a senior brunch, the senior soiree, and a minor committment to the undergraduate women's community. But it can mean more. If Wilson makes a more earnest attempt to listen to undergraduate women and concentrates less on graduate programs, Radcliffe will take an important first step towards truly "enrich[ing] the lives of undergraduate women...
...time when the United States is facing a shortage of science teachers, Harvard should make every attempt to avoid discouraging students from continuing studies in physics and engineering. As it now stands, most incoming students intending to concentrate in engineering and the physical sciences end up with degrees in other fields...