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...National Security League announced yesterday that it would attempt to offset the influence of Socialist societies among college students and make a particular effort to counteract the influence of the Intercollegiate Liberal League, recently organized at Harvard by undergraduate representatives from twenty-seven colleges and universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dyed in Red | 4/12/1921 | See Source »

...University has an especially severe schedule ahead and hopes to counteract the defeats meted out by Yale and Princeton last season. Most of the candidates have been playing squash throughout the winter to keep in condition and to develop skill and speed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS PRACTICE STARTS AT THE LONG WOOD COURTS | 2/26/1920 | See Source »

...first be tried before its success can be determined. Radical curtailment of expenses, if that is possible, may be suitable in some cases, or increased fees in others. In every instance, however, care must be taken to avoid any decision that will discourage future undergraduates. Universities are compelled to counteract in whatever way seems best the losses caused by war, but, in so doing, let them not injure their own prestige or make college education less attainable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR DEFICITS | 1/9/1918 | See Source »

...truth of this statement. We went as far as to give more importance to English than to our own language, Spanish, in our schools. The Republican Party, with its belief in statehood for the island, controlled the country until 1904. However, a sharp reaction set in to counteract the political abuses of the appointees, and as an expression of national consciousness, the Unionist Party came into control as a result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 4/14/1917 | See Source »

...service, the CRIMSON obligingly announces a policy of actively favoring military training, calls for a straw-vote without any previous discussion of the question, and arranges to send an official delegation to Washington on Thursday to lay the convincing results before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, in order to counteract the staggering effect of recent "pacifist" testimony. In former days the CRIMON has given us to believe that it possesses a mind of its own, inquiring and open, deliberative, not easily to be shaken. But not so in these when the world is drunk with state-sickness and when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "For Fools Rush In--" | 1/24/1917 | See Source »

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