Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been the custom in previous Confidential Guides, there will be no attempt made to include every course which will begin after the midyear examination period. Only those courses which are deemed of sufficient interest to the general undergraduate body, and those for which competent reviewers can be found, will be included in the Guide...
...form, the feature will not vary from precedent. The criticism of each course will be a succinct attempt to present an honest criticism of the subject and its manner of presentation. The criticism is at least not avowedly destructive, and the purpose is rather to furnish undergraduates with some better source of information on the courses which are open to them than exists at present...
...main purposes of the Society is to attempt writing plays for production by the Dramatic Club. Harvard has graduated many prominent dramatists in former years and the new association hopes to stimulate renewed activity in this field...
...Here, the son, Mr. Geoffrey Kerr, has been fortunate enough to awaken with his piano one night the charming Miss Bainter, playing the part of a Roumanian medical student. Thus acquaintance, attention, and infatuation in quick succession. A bailiff with a long name has come to the Count to attempt to reconcile the Father and son, and by the by to collect 7,452 francs that the son owes him. The Count refuses to surrender. Finally for business reasons he agrees to settle his son's financial difficulties if he will within thirty-six hours present himself...
...after one term or one year, never to return. Usually, having found themselves unfit for college work, or uninterested, they enter business, and more often succeed well enough. The loss of four years at college does not seem to affect their business acumen, nor that of many who never attempt to go to college. Perhaps Dr. Ogilby's complaint comes from too high an esteem for a college degree, which may mean very little when secured, as is often, by a minimum of application to carefully chosen, easy courses...