Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association at its recent meeting voted to support the National Student Federation in any attempt the latter might make to establish an international student news service. The fact that the college newspapers are in favor of such an innovation and that the Federation is thinking of it is interesting...
...view of the lack of cooperation on the part of the crew, it seems highly undesirable that I should attempt to continue in the present position of head coach after this date. Much as I regret this step, nothing but harm can result where clavier confidence does not exist on the part of both oarsmen and coach...
...best way to attempt to clear the American air of the odor of unfairness and smallness in racial questions is to bring those questions out where they can be best studied. But that the present time is one for the practice of unstudied attempts to go too directly toward a dimly conceived objective is certainly incredible...
...Nation has a policy of commending the novel and the hold. And the present case seems in some ways an excellent one to commend. For these students who are attempting by intelligent fraterization to remedy inferiority complexes and fueds of the recila variety to do away with fear and folly are on the right track. Yet they must not be too sure how well they can travel that track until they have studied the situation and realized most keenly that others before them have in fearing to attempt this been less cowardly than discrete. If they can do this then...
...major changes were made in the rules for debate. The decision of three judges had been proven unsatisfactory, as had also the attempt to allow the audience to pick the winning team, so the two methods will be combined next year. That is, each of the three judges will have one vote and the audience will have one vote, three votes being necessary to win a debate. Also the convention went on record as favoring open forums after the debate, whenever possible, in which the audience may take part. This plan was followed unofficially this year by both Princeton...