Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admission requirement permitting the credit of four years French or German comes in answer to a long-felt need of preparatory schools. In their attempt to give men the thorough survey of modern languages which Harvard expects, schools have been much handicapped by a limitation at the point where a language is just beginning to interest the student. The new regulation should stimulate more study of French and German In school, and consequently lead to a lightening of the burdens of Harvard's language requirements in college...
...organize and express what he has learned of a whole subject in three full years of study and reflection. In the freedom of extended time the less ambitious will find an advantage and the capable undergraduate will more nearly approach an understanding of his field sufficient for him to attempt a small specialized job in the form of a thesis in his final year. From a hurdle for the honors men the divisional becomes the natural consummation of a college career to which none should look forward with trepidation...
Merry Andrew. Druggists are notoriously busy and peculiar characters. So fantastic and interesting are their occupations, that, when they attempt to leave their tinted shelves, druggists find themselves drawn back, like outworn reporters, to the charms of their conversational counters. Investigating this novel theme, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) last week delivered to a giggling audience his history of the successive industry, retirement, and return, not to the grindstone but to the happy pharmacy of one Andrew Aiken, impersonated by plump Walter Connolly, placidly absurd but only mildly funny...
...note precipitated a furore in Cambridge police circles, possibly second only to a Harvard student riot scare. Photographic copies of the note, the fingerprints of the child on the paper, an exhaustive investigation of police archives for possible data on "Feagan's gang", formed part of the attempt to trace the criminals to their lair. The Boston Globe gets excited and suggests a crime in front page headlines...
...experiment to gain the advantages of the small college. Middlebury has been successfully investing in the same thing for over 128 years, only on a different scale. Do we at Middlebury fully appreciate the benefits and heritage which are ours as a small college, and for which, in its attempt to approach them, a sister institution willingly expends a tremendous fortune." Middlebury Campus...