Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Burgeon's captured British army was being sent back to England an attempt was made to quarter its officers in Massachusetts Hall. The College and the province had a heated controversy, and finally compromised by allowing the officers to be quartered in Apthorp House, which still stands...
Doubtless there are some Americans of unquestionable loyalty, who hold views on this subject as colorless as those expressed this morning by Mr. Shubow; but it doesn't make the rest of us any more certain of their loyalty to have them attempt to show that the Country is "politically intolerant"--simply because this bunch of poisonous reptiles is being driven out. It would be just as reasonable to say that Massachusetts is "intolerant," because convicted murderers in Massachusetts are sent to the electric chair...
...painstakingly accurate as the editor of a journal such as the "Nation." Unfortunately, Mr. Villard has not exhibited this quality, and still more unfortunately, Mr. Villard is not the only inac- curate editor of such journals. If the "New Republic," the "Nation" and such publications would at least attempt accuracy in one or two of their statements there would be less unrest in the country...
Tonight Harvard's hockey team will meet Yale in an attempt to follow the example of the victorious eleven. Although the record of early season games shows no victory for the University upon the ice, the complete stories of those contests tell a tale of increasing strength and skill on the part of the Crimson team which makes the combination appear fully capable of handling its blue-clad opponents. In order to wrest the victory from Yale, however, the sextet will be forced to show a faster, keener brand of hockey than it has disclosed thus far. The Eli team...