Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday's loss to the Tigers followed a second unsuccessful attempt to play Yale. After rain had postponed the match from Wednesday to Friday, a deluge poured down at New Haven as the match was reaching its midway mark. Yale held a 2 to 0 lead, but Crimson players were ahead in three of the other seven matches...
...College Scene was initiated as an attempt to examine and evaluate the academic and social environment of the individual in Harvard College. Previous editorials have undertaken a preliminary examination. From these editorials conclusions are now to be drawn; these conclusions, in turn, will form the basis for recommendations...
...BOSTON, delegates to the Methodist Quadrennial Conference (TIME, May 10) temperately responded to Bishop Oxnam's ringing call for Christian unity by establishing a "Commission on Church Union" to consider specific proposals. They also adopted a resolution which 1) denounced war as unChristian, 2) urged an attempt at understanding with Russia, and 3) disapproved universal military training. Other decisions: against admitting women preachers to equal standing with men; to raise the church's Public Information budget for the next four years (from $106,000 to $300,000); to spend up to $240,000 on an efficiency survey...
...Chiefly an attempt to turn base metals into gold by chemical means. **The other two: Oedipus Rex, Tom Jones...
...College Scene series was initiated as an attempt to examine and to evaluate the academic and social environment of the individual in Harvard College. Previous editorials have undertaken only the preliminary examination. They have not been concerned with diagnosis or remedies. From these editorials conclusions are now to be drawn; these conclusions, in turn, will form the basis for recommendations. In order to make clear the context within which both conclusions and recommendations are to be understood, "Looking Backward" will summarize the content of the previous editorials...