Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This meeting is part of an organized attempt of a number of Seniors, with the support and approval of the Faculty, to impress upon the Freshmen the importance of making a careful choice of electives. Several of these Seniors will be on hand to address the Freshmen...
...such sentiments as those in the Harvard Magazine and others which the seething brains of embryo-politicians have brought forth, we are fully confident. The motive of self-advertisement is perhaps too apparent to make their threat bear weight. It will doubtless amuse Cambridge to see its youngest periodical attempt to attract attention to itself by sticking out its small tongue at the CRIMSON; and we can hardly believe that the average undergraduate will sympathize with its attempts to establish a cheap and noisy paper which finds it all too easy to take an instantaneous and extreme attitude toward...
...civilian organization. There is to be no distinction of rank between members,-a private is to have the same standing as an officer. Second, the convention voted, that the Legion should be entirely non-partisan. Although it may later advocate certain national policies, it will always attempt to remain out of politics. The third decision reached at the convention was that the membership of the Legion will include all men who served in the army, navy or marline corps of the United States in the Great War, regardless of whether or not they have seen service overseas. The future policy...
...nine will play Exeter this afternoon on the latter's field in an attempt to break the victories of the Academy team, which number 40 in succession. Not since 1914 has the New Hampshire nine lost a game, and in the past four seasons they have amassed 348 runs to their opponents' 46. H. S. Russell and J. Murphy will form the Freshman battery. J. G. Allen in center field is a new man in the line-up. Since the Andover game his hard hitting has featured the practices...
...that it was therefore not within the powers of the University to combine with M. I. T. Thereupon the departments of Engineering and Mining, with a new department of Industrial Chemistry, were re-organized in 1918 as the Harvard Engineering School. Owing to the war conditions here, no attempt was made to expand the school this year, but an important extension is planned for next fall...