Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...economically useless to attempt to check corporate monopolies, the government should confine its efforts to ascertaining the line beyond which they become dangerous and confining them within it by stringent legislation. Inasmuch as corporations extend their ramifications over many states, they have passed beyond the scope of state control and contrary to the opinion of many people, lie naturally under the jurisdiction of the federal government...
...claims that the new system is perfect. It is an attempt to construct a positive system of education upon definite principles, and a system that is well fitted to the traditions of Harvard College because it leaves the initiative with the student himself. The essence of the system is that it holds up before a student a positive standard of education, and the setting up of that standard alone is of inestimable value. So long as he is told that any sixteen courses are, in the opinion of the college authorities, equivalent to any others, it is natural that...
...reception, Count von Bernstorff consented to speak, and emphasized the need of a thorough understanding between the youth of Germany and this country. It is surprising, he said, how little each knows of the other, and how inaccurate and garbled even that little is. The exchange professors which attempt to bring the countries closer together, can do but little unless the attitude of the students whom they address is favorable. In closing, he complimented the Verein and offered to be of assistance to it in any way which lay in his power...
...never be taught, is another requisite as are ease and clearness, though these latter may be partially acquired. Personality, too, is important; for a lecturer must be able to hold the attention: once this is lost, it can never be regained. Finally a speaker must always attempt to make his speech appropriate to the place, the occasion, and the audience...
...permitted that word, is, and probably was intended to be, Mr. Collier's attack on the lecture system. "The situation is very much as if physical culture instructors should devote all their attention to feeding their pupils on the best possible nourishment, and make no attempt to give the pupils exercise." The limitations of space forbid the reviewer to enter upon an extended discussion of this incisive and cogent criticism of the Harvard lecture system. It is unquestionably destined to receive the wide and careful attention which it merits...