Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dean Briggs went to New Haven yesterday to discuss plans for spring athletics with the authorities of Yale and Princeton, which universities will be represented by Dean McClenahan of Princeton, and Professor Robert N. Corwin, chairman of the Yale Board of Athletic Control. An attempt will be made to frame an understanding in regard to all spring sports, but special emphasis will be laid on baseball and rowing...
...very large percentage of the Class of 1918 made applications for rooms in the Yard last January, so that all of the reserved halls were practically filled. The 1919 dormitory committee have decided, in view of the comparatively small number in the class, not to attempt to fill all of the Yard buildings, but to reserve only four halls: Hollis, Holworthy, Stoughton and Thayer. Matthewe has dropped from the list as its situation does not lead to class unity so much as does the homogeneous group formed by the other halls...
...knot into which railroads and fuel have been tied Mr. Garfield demands that all business cease. Without heeding, or else deliberately disregarding the counsel of local administrators, the central head has wildly adopted this scheme. Suddenness intensifies the radicalism or the more, made, apparently, in a desperate attempt to wipe out the ever-increasing fuel difficulties. Though an effort to remedy a grievous situation, it is rather a confession of inability to cope with the problem by other means. Because the Government regulator has failed to arrange a satisfactory coal schedule he must now upset business. In haste...
...results of the proposed plan might be better secured by actually turning back the clocks, but it would be impossible for the University alone to attempt that method. An alteration of the schedule, however, would be practical and economical. It is safe to anticipate favorable action in regard to the matter by the Student Council this evening, and there is no reason to believe that the Faculty will not be similarly disposed...
Among a small body of so-called citizens there has been a systematic attempt to embarrass the Government by raising the cry: "What are we fighting for?" To these few as well as the Germans, the President has given a definite reply; his fourteen demands are clear and to the point and they, combined with Lloyd George's aims, as outlined in his last speech to the trade unionists, explain the Allied cause...