Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harlow praised the work of guards Nick Rodis and Emil Drvaric, and especially the defensive efforts of center Jack Fisher, who intercepted one pass, backed up the Varsity line in rugged fashion, and was named by the Varsity as the man who blocked the first Princeton extra-point attempt. Press box denizens gave credit to Rodis, Drvaric and Chet Pierce, either separately or en masse, in their Sunday morning dissertations, but the opinion of the Harvard locker room was that Fisher was the man of the hour...
Ironically, it was Bucky Harrison, whose right too was infallible in seven efforts last Saturday, who missed the important conversion attempt against the Tigers on Saturday. Drvaric's place-kick after the first score was a model shot, and his kickoffs left little to be desired in length and height...
...University band will attempt to improve its admittedly shaky financial condition by soliciting contributions from students on October 19, Warren Smith '48, manager, said last night...
This week, in a sermon called "Communist Dynamics and the Hope of Peace." the onetime Methodist minister drew a badly needed, clear-cut line between liberalism and Communism. Said he: "Communism is a sincere but psychopathic attempt to adjust the life of man hurriedly to the world of the machine. . . . Its fatal defect is that wherever its principles are applied man loses and the machine wins. This is inherent in the nature of Communism because its faith is not in man but in social mechanics...
With agreement on this basic principle, it was not impossible to work out a program. We did not shy away from an attempt to define the students interest in the world outside the ivory tower. In fact, resolutions which we adopted were quite prominent in Prague, whole sections being incorporated into the final report of the Congress...