Word: effort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question which has long been in the minds of many undergraduates. Last Spring a good deal of discussion was heard in regard to the fate of the clubs under the House System and at that time President Lowell in speaking before various undergraduate organizations assured their members that an effort would be made to solve this problem by supplying food from the College kitchens to the various club houses. This plan has since been found to be impractical. Nothing definite can be said of the fate of the clubs at present except for the fact that those in charge...
...terrified coal miners took refuge at the bottom of a shaft before the Soviet advance. Soviet troops stopped the pumps, drowned the lot. Crowds of refugees gathered at all stations along the Chinese Eastern Railway. Special trains chuffed 'back and forth, rushing Chinese citizens to safety, making no effort to collect fares...
Charles Apted, superintendent of care takers and head of the College yard cops, last night scouted the idea that Federal officers were making any new or concentrated effort to dry up Harvard square, and suggested that this was merely an individual case in which the alleged bootleggers happened to be tracked to Mt. Auburn Street, This view was also supported by the local enforcement officers who could be reached last night...
...possibility that Saturday night's raid is part of a widespread enforcement effort suggested itself last night, however, when rumors were current that a series of Bostonwide raids were being made with the aid of half a dozen Harvard undergraduates, It was reported that students in the University, piqued at paying exorbitant prices for bad liquor, were "getting even" with the bootleggers. The CRIMSON was unable to obtain accurate facts as to the alleged connections between Harvard undergraduates and enforcement officers...
...opportunity for progressive effort which the inclusion of female voices offers in choral music will widen the repertoire of the Glee Club beyond the unfortunately narrow field in which they were previously working. Such a departure from the conventional college glee club practice is a worth while addition to the policy of advancing the standards of the Glee Club library which Dr. Davidson has so assiduously executed...