Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergo, not only a physical examination, but a mental and emotional inspection also. "Hundreds of students" says Dr. Faunce, "are held back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." This ought to be a platitude. And to seek a remedy for introspective unbalance is to attempt to control what ordinarily, like Topsy, just grows. It is to enter a field of progress more fundamental than pedagogical reform or curricula revision, but unfortunately not so well known. Men now juggle the mechanical details of education with some confidence. When, however, they enter with dogma into the realm...
...Herbert J. Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has just returned from a three months' expedition in the Yucatan. With Mr. Gregory Mason. Dr. Spinden explored mush of the territory which was previously unknown to archaeologists, in an attempt to get nearer the long sought solution of the Mayan riddle...
...Messer Marco Polo (1921), few guessed his genius and there were money struggles, hard ones. His wife, Dolly Donn-Byrne, writes too-collaborated with Gilda Varesi on the play Enter Madame. There are four little Donn-Byrnes, including the twins, but not even the best friends of the family attempt to spell their Gaelic names...
Since this land is not wholly in the control of the College, opportunity has presented itself to establish profane hotels instead of placid dormitories, or dilatory movies in place of industrious squash courts. For defeating the latest attempt to invade the precincts marked off by their position for University use, gratitude is due to Mr. C. C. Stillman '98. He has given two important tracts, situated in the region reserved for undergraduate clubs and dormitories...
...tagged out when the Pennsylvania right fielder made a beautiful throw in on Todd's hit. In the last inning Chauncey was safe at first on an error, but neither Ellison nor Amsden, two left handed hitters who were sent to the plate by Coach Mitchell in a desperate attempt to tie the score, were able to connect safely...