Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement. The students who report for Boston and New York newspapers have formed the News Bureau to increase the efficiency of their own service and establish an agency where any newspaper may procure news of the University; and the News Bureau has joined with the CRIMSON in an active attempt to reach newspapers all over the country interested in Harvard. Roughly speaking, as was stated in the article elsewhere, labor will be divided--the CRIMSON gathering the news, and the News Bureau directing dissemination...
...evening but continues a well credited policy, and in addition to this gives merited encouragement to a less prominent branch of athletics. We wish the facilities at our disposal were better in this regard and the need for a new gymnasium is no more keenly felt than when we attempt to extend hospitality in this form to the preparatory schools. Such as we have we gladly offer, hoping better for the near future...
...boat was carried from the Newell Club House to the lower side of the bridge, where an improvised float allowed the men to get on board. In the open water between the Stadium and the Cottage Farm Bridge, crew A made three trips back and forth. There was no attempt to raise the stroke, and the work of the oarsmen was satisfactory for so early in the season. Crews B and C made two trips between the bridges, and the other crews rowed in the tank under the direction of Coach Brown...
President Lowell avoided discussion of the technical points of the combination, confining himself to an exposition of the broader principles involved, and to answering common questions. He pointed out that the project was far from novel, tracing its history from the initial attempt, 43 years ago, and on through the failure of subsequent efforts to the successful culmination of the late plan. Of the various phases of the union, President Lowell spoke, in the main, on the way in which the two faculties will be involved. In short, the faculty of the combination will be a "Technology faculty re-inforced...
...thus enabling R. Tower '15 to hold the pole at the start. Burns, the first man for the B. A. A., tried hard to cut in on Tower at the first turn, but the latter ran well and held the inside. Burns made one more attempt to close in on and pass Tower, but failed. The Harvard man gradually opened up a lead, and started F. W. Capper '15 with a four yard advantage on Merrihew. Capper ran finely, and had no trouble in adding to the lead. W. J. Bingham '16 was touched off with an 8 yard start...