Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English departments are founded predominantly on the approach. If English 21 is unsatisfactory, as it seems to be, it is because the History and Literature man feels the weakness of too narrow and outmoded an interpretation and the absence of a social point of view. All courses which attempt to relate history and literature to the cultural and economic background of the time concerned are applauded. For this reason less philology and more sociology are demanded. See the History and English articles for courses not mentioned...
These detonations signaled the attempt last week by President Cardenas to put the final squeeze on his old friend, Saturnine Cedillo...
...Mexico and the U. S. hailed General Cedillo's defiance as a potential threat to overthrow the Cárdenas regime. Mexico's troubles over the oil expropriations and the resulting business collapse made this threat a likely possibility. So the President two months ago made an attempt to get General Cedillo away from his stronghold. He ordered the General to take over command of the military zone in Michoacán, Cárdenas' home state. General Cedillo, pleading illness, asked for a 45-day respite. Last week, his leave expired, the old General sent...
...during the year to take a more active administrative part in the actual government of the students; presumably it is hoped that the Council would assume the power of disciplining students in all questions unconnected with scholastic aptitude. In my opinion it would be unwise for the Council to attempt to gain such powers. The restrictions on the private lives of the students at Harvard are kept to the very minimum, and if the University is willing to handle the details of punishing offenders, the Council should rather be grateful than resentful. The idealistic conception of student government...
...principal humor is supplied by the gentlemen of the society who attempt to correct this vice, but become involved in a doubtfully moral association with "a lady of leisure...