Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know the battle that has been waged around the problem of the training of the mind. But one thing is clear, and that is that we shall find no really conclusive answer to the educational dilemma growing out of the enormity and complexity of modern knowledge if we attempt to determine the future evolution of higher education mainly in terms of curriculum construction. Any such approach will inevitably drive us to a choice between superficial general knowledge and accurate specialized knowledge. We must look for the really creative development of education in the methods of teaching rather than...
...passed the Watson-Parker railway bill, which is to say that, the President having signed on the dotted line, the section of the Transportation act creating the Railroad Labor Board is repealed, the board goes out of existence, and hereafter railway labor disputes will run the following course: 1) Attempt by employers and employes to reach a mutual agreement; 2) Attempt by boards of adjustment representing both parties to settle the difference...
...Attempt by a board of five mediators appointed by the President to bring the two parties together; 4) Attempt to induce the two parties to accept arbitration, the finding of which would be legally binding; 5) Investigation of the matters in dispute by a board of investigation appointed by the President to report to him within 30 days; 6) No strike until 30 days after the report of this board has been made public...
...Harvard is to assume the position of American university, that is, if she is to attempt to reach with he influence not alone the youth of New England but the youth of the nation, as represented by the new enrolment figures, she must gird herself to meet the requirements of that youth. Not the insular function of a provincial university those duty is to the youth of that area, but the wider function of a center of learning open to all those in the land who are best fitted to work under her guidance--that is the difficult role which...
...citizenship in a modern state. Thus the traditions which are completely of New England to so much as they are necessary to strengthen and illumine the lives and minds of those who come to Harvard must be maintained; those which could the issues, which handicap the university in her attempt to meet with the greatest facility her obligation as an American university must be forgotten...