Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a fund of good material on hand, the Harvard mentor plans two scrimmages, possibly three, this week in an attempt to cut his present squad of 48 down to more wieldy proportions. This afternoon will find the first string players pitted against Coach Knox's seconds and the two squads will meet again on Wednesday afternoon. There is a possibility of a third scrimmage on Thursday. So far the Crimson squad has engaged in six practice tussles with the scrubs and run through a wide variety of plays...
Editorial comment is universal in decrying any interested attempt to block a parley which seemed to promise a long step on the road to universal peace. It is hard to see how any intelligent opinion can fail to repudiate such small minded paltering with matters so vital to humanity as a whole, but it is still too early to make specific charges. In a social system which depends so entirely upon the integrity of big corporations, even the most radical can derive but a sad sort of pleasure in a gleeful "I told you so" when big business is cast...
...universities and colleges The New Republic receives frequent communications--the low salaries of professors and the rising fees for tuition. It is not often that the same correspondent protests against both evils, at any rate in the same letter. The connection between them is too obvious--one is an attempt to remedy the other. It is true that the student's tuition fee seems to have increased more rapidly than the wage of his instructor. A part of the former is necessarily absorbed by the heightened cost of maintenance of a modern educational plant. But the irresistible argument...
...score. Mason and Putnam completed the only forward of the day, one which was good for 25 yards and then Mason speed around end for 23 more yards. Five rushes at the tired second team line put the ball over with Mason carrying it on the final attempt. Putnam's kick was high and wide...
Thousands of men in colleges today are waiting to hear them. Are preparing for the baccalaureate signal to leave the campus and attempt to qualify for whatever place in life they aspire to. For them, particularly...