Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a meet with Holy Cross. The Varsity won its first meet 26 to 31. Outstanding in that race was the finishing 400 yards in which Captain Erhard of the Crimson and Sullivan of Holy Cross widened the gap between them and the rest of the field in an effort to nab first place. Erhard was beaten by a matter of two yards, Sullivan breaking the old record for the course by nearly six seconds...
Less than a minute remained to play, and a badly frightened Dartmouth third team tried to avoid ignominy by stalling for time, rushing over the line of scrimmage before the ball was snapped in an effort to use up the seconds. Each time the referee would impose a penalty of half way to the goal line--a matter of feet. Things quieted down, however, in time for Oakes to plunge over tackle for the score. Harding kicked the point and the game ended on the play after the kick-off.CHARLES C. BUELL '23 Downed Dartmouth...
...largely to the fervor of student unity which had led to the formation of the American Student Union and also the amalgamation of the four Harvard political organization into the Harvard Student Union. It must be admitted that in the year and half of affiliation our officers made little effort either to influence the national policy or to inform Harvard what this policy...
...scene of the book is Key West and Cuba. The story is a sort of saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his family at least on the upper fringes of the "have-nots." Owner of a fast motorboat, he charters it to big-game fishermen, also uses it for running contraband. At the book's outset he is seen in a Havana cafe considering and refusing another such shady proposition-this time...
...Farnsworth Room is not without restrictions--one of the most irksome of which is that coats and notebook must be checked in the cloakroom across the hall--but an effort is made to show the student that the rules are not arbitrary, that by observing them he is maintaining for himself and others the charm and nacfulness of the library. Morever, when he infringes one of these little regulations, he is not made to feel, as he is in the reading room above, that by his negligence he has jeopardized the future of Harvard College...