Word: efforts
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During the last meeting of the academic year, the Council narrowly voted 15-13 to begin a 16-month effort to purchase the multi-million dollar 45 Mt. Auburn St. property for use as a student community center...
...Undergraduate Council’s Capital Campaign—conceived last spring in an effort to purchase property for a new student center—closed the summer having raised $700 toward the effort...
...very positive early indication of where we are.” Although Boston College led the Crimson in shots on goal, gunning for the Harvard net 17 times while the Crimson rattled off 14 attempts, the visiting team’s defense was impenetrable. A decisive Crimson effort led by sophomore goalkeeper Austin Harms—who recorded two saves during the game—kept this strong Eagles attack at bay. “The team played great for the majority of the game,” senior midfielder Desmond Mitchell said. “We controlled the ball...
...student turnout was brought about by an intensive, week-long effort by the Dems to ensure Harvard’s involvement in the rally. According to Lam, members of the Dems knocked on every freshman door to encourage attendance. They also pushed members of the Dems to bring “roommates, friends, neighbors, and random people they met in the dining hall,” Lam said. — Staff writer Evan T. R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu...
...Obama will take his case for health-care reform directly to the American people - again - and compete head to head with the 8 p.m. season premiere of America's Next Top Model. The speech is less a recalibration of his health-care effort than a restatement of purpose. Aides caution that he will neither demand a so-called public-health-insurance option nor abandon his desire to see one achieved. He will not give up his quest for a bipartisan compromise in the Senate, nor will he vow to abandon the possible use of parliamentary procedures that would allow Democrats...