Word: counteractions
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...refused to give up their rooms to seniors for Class Day. The members of '91 perhaps do not appreciate how firmly established is this custom at Harvard of giving seniors the use of college rooms for their day of reception. We are convinced that second thought will suffice to counteract all narrow selfish reasons for a refusal to give up their rooms. Complaints of a nature similar to these come up every year, and we can only attribute it to the lack of knowledge on the part of freshmen of the established customs. Class Day is pre-eminently and exclusively...
...Princeton have over Harvard in foot-ball matters, lies the fact that at those colleges the candidates for position on the eleven get to work two weeks before we are able to do so here. The foot-ball season is a short one and the only way to counteract this handicap is for everyone trying for a position on the team to put his whole heart and soul into the game and work to bring his college out first in the contest. A scant four weeks is all the time that remains before the first championship game takes place...
...choice of college. Then the tie of friendship, after three years of association, is very close, and when one sees a large number of his companions going to a New England college, the pressure which causes him to break away must be a very strong one. In order to counteract these influences, Princeton's New England Association was formed, the primary object of which is to advance the interests of the college throughout the New England academies by fairly presenting to these schools Princeton's claims, and by promoting the interests of the New England students here in the literary...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - It has been customary in past years, at least up to the time of '85, for the non-society men of the senior class to hold a caucus and to perfect an organization to counteract in some degree the so-called "influence" of the large societies in the election of class-day officers. While I by no means wish to imply that the present state of affairs demands such concerted action, I wish through your columns to impress on non-society men the importance of a full attendance at the election. This not only would tend...
...that the article in question was written in perfectly good faith, and nothing was further from my thoughts, in replying to it, than impugning, in the least, the motives of its author. I only intended to point out the bad effects which such an article might have, and to counteract that effect so far as I was able...