Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking as a Princeton man, I regret to see the Lampoon or any other small coterie of Harvard undergraduates attempt to act as self-appointed spokesmen for the undergraduate body as a whole. Why there should be this feeling against Princeton, I do not know. Even if such a feeling exists, why it should be stirred up and encouraged by Harvard, I do not know. And granted even that it exists and should be aired in an effort to clarify matters. I do not know any reason why the airing should be done by the Lampoon rather than by others...
Speaking as a graduate student in Harvard, it seems most inappropriate that any group of men in a university of this size and importance should attempt to clog in the least degree the machinery of good-will existing among the graduates of so many other schools of learning. It is true unfortunately that the opportunities for social intercourse between graduate students are much restricted by the unusually heavy work assigned them, but this fact is in itself a reason for making the few opportunities that exist as pleasant as possible. Princeton sends a large number...
...ever the proper time for such action can be conceived of now is that time. While both colleges are laying their cards upon the table, are striving to clear the atmosphere of trivial, though insinuating misunderstandings, some definite attempt at an analysis of the situation by accredited representatives of both student bodies and an attempt by them to offer remedial suggestions based on such an analysis should be made. Thus the necessary conclusion to the tempest which has leeward over this last weekend must be defined as the appointment of a committee by the Princeton Senior Council and the Harvard...
...effective good can be accomplished by ruminating upon that feeling. To hide it beneath any casual silence is but to increase it. And that the CRIMSON has no desire to do. Rather is it the purpose of the CRIMSON to get at the root of the matter and attempt in some fashion to eradicate what is at best puerile and futile...
...opinion of either undergraduate body, that there will never again be a time when the stands are audibly antagonistic, when the teams become central elements in a turmoil of tea cup war. Such phenomena are intrinsic parts of all that the college of today and of the future must attempt with all its power to drive into permanent oblivion...