Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON sanctum tomorrow evening at 9 o'clock. To this smoker all editors of the Advocate, CRIMSON, Illustrated, Lampoon, Monthly, Musical Review, and the undergraduate members of the Engineering Journal are invited. Refreshments will be served and some form of entertainment provided. As this is the first attempt that has been made to hold a smoker of this kind, it is essential that all the editors of the various papers concerned be present in order that the affair may be a success...
...last attempt to unite these two papers that are now competing in a single field, was made two years ago. The project failed at that time because of a lack of proper support. Since then the plan to merge the Advocate and Monthly has been seriously agitated, and consequently the present desirable scheme is expected to be more successful...
...lunch today. The prices will be 50 cents for main floor seats, and 25 cents for balcony and gallery seats. No free seats will be issued to students as in former years. This departure from the custom of allowing each student a free seat is made in an attempt to pay the expenses of the debaters without making subscriptions necessary...
...write it come to choose themes apparently so remote and uncharacteristic? H.R. Carey's "The Gods' Message" is an expression in terms of Greek mythology of the idea that "hope cometh in the morning." "La Vie Sans l'Amour" by C.G.H. is an ambitious attempt to express in terms now metaphysical, now symbolic, the thought in the title; yet, in spite of the impression of largeness and dignity given by many of the lines, it can hardly be called completely articulate. Frank Dazey's "Sonnet" is the best piece of verse in the number. As for the "Song" by Samuel...
...wish to second Mr. Harris's remarks in Monday's CRIMSON. The spectacle of the Harvard Union apparently following a consistent policy of inviting military and naval men to speak under its auspices in an attempt to induce Harvard men to join the army, to undertake military or naval training, to support the present nation-wide campaign to spend more and ever more in chasing the will-o'-the-wisp of military efficiency, is indeed revolting. To read in the daily papers that one who raised his voice to protest against such shameful and absurd proceedings was hissed and hooted...