Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a month of useless wrangling and recrimination the Union and the Houses are finally getting together in a cooperative attempt to plan weekend dances. A Union football dance during the Dartmouth weekend, the first in its history, out into a monopoly held by the inter-House committee and touched off an argument of magnificent proportions. Last week, under Student Council guidance, representatives of the inter-House Social Committee and the Union Committee agreed to agree. Although some knotty problems still face the two groups, they should reach a speedy concurrence o forestall further friction...
Lashed to a creamy forth by Union plans for a Dartmouth dance, the Social Committee protested that two dances would cut into House profits. A Union ticket fee of $1.80 as against a $3.60 toll at the House dances was regarded as a direct attempt to divert both Freshmen and bargain hunters from the Houses. Yet both Yard and House dances were sellouts. Again; when the Union scheduled a dance on the Princeton weekend, the inter-House Committee made similar protests. They asked the Union to switch its dance to the Brown weekend, so that the Houses would be certain...
Under the overall generalship of Charles H. Sammond, Jr. '48, a three-pronged campaign has been organized to hit all members of the College in an attempt to reach the Council's ultimate goal of $25,000. The Houses, the Yard, and the commuters will be three centers of effort, each division of the drive under the leadership of a separate chairman...
Splitting up into racially-mixed pairs or groups of four, the travelers would board busses and sent themselves well towards the front of the ear. The driver's attempt to put the Negroes in the Jim Crow rear seats was always met with a polite, "I'd rather sit here...
...committee, which has yet to receive official recognition from University Hall, is an independent group with only loose connection with other pro-Wallace groups throughout the Nation. Their broad program is to attempt to organize State delegates, throughout the country to support Wallace at the National Convention...