Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attempt to stimulate more active interest in undergraduate debating the University Advisory Committee of Debating has adopted a plan of interclass competition that will be discussed in an open meeting in the Union this evening. Since the Freshmen already have class debating, the suggested plan will apply to the three upper classes. To the members of the winning team the Committee has decided to present cups as a mark of their success...
...Senior class smoker will be held in Holworthy 13 and 14 this evening at 9 o'clock. An attempt is being made to have a troop of entertainers on hand and all Seniors are urged to be present...
...subscribers will welcome the opportunity to read the whole of the President's report for 1910-11, we publish it entire as a supplement to this morning's CRIMSON. We believe that anyone interested in what the present administration has done in the past year, or may attempt to do in the future, will find therein an excellent synopsis of advancement during 1910-11 as well as the foreshadowing of one or two changes to come. Aside from a report of progress along lines already laid down, we notice four points well worthy of comment...
...third place, we were impressed with the needs of the University in a financial way. The most pressing of all is a new library, and until that is obtained, it seems to us out of the question to attempt "campaigns"or "booms" for other equipment. Nobody appreciates more than ourselves the absurdity of Harvard's mediaeval gymnasium. But until an adequate library and sanitary laboratories for chemical students are obtained, we must be content with the excellent outdoor athletic facilities we now possess...
...discuss the differences between the Age of Pericles and modern times, but revealed the life in Athens by pointing out the features of its similarity with modern life. The first Persian war stirred the Athenians to the supreme manifestation of their genius. Their indominatable spirit in the attempt to build the fairest of cities was curbed by the destructive period of the thirty years war. Although the shadow of war was constantly upon the Athenians, they accomplished in eighty years the building of great cities containing wonderful specimens of art; the establishing of a democratic machinery of government with courts...