Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the entry of the University authorities into the lists against the proposed erection of an apartment, building on the site of Beck Hall, as reported in yesterday's edition of the CRIMSON, Harvard takes official action in an attempt to preserve a cherished landmark. Resistance to the march of progress is usually a hopeless task and the rapid growth of Cambridge as a commercial city has brought far more advantages on the whole than the occasional unfortunate results it has had upon the college. Yet there are instances where opposition is not only feasible but beneficial, and the present...
Further trials are to be held next Wednesday night in an attempt to discover additional first tenors, basses, trombonists and banjoists. Rehearsals are to begin Tuesday night in preparation for a busy fall season. Plans are already taking shape for the Christmas trip, and the tentative itinerary includes Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago...
...change from home life to fraternity life is for most men and women their first attempt to adjust themselves to an entirely different mode of living. And it is the more versatile of the new students who most readily get into the swing of things. --The Daily Illini
...illumined comedy of the Park Avenue elite is haughty but it's vice. The lady of his piece is married to an urbane cuckold who regards benignantly her indiscretions with a pianist and financier. When he grows tired of her promiscuous activities, she evades his attempt to catch her. At the end, however, trapped with poetic justice, she falls prey to the advances of his private detective...
...American Club at Paris last week entertained a twitterer-Lieut-Col. Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla. Many present had known him in the U. S. He had been a co-worker with the late Ferdinand de Lesseps on the first attempt to dig a Panama canal. That project (by the French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump...