Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...early spring kept them at a little whaling factory for some time. While there they were able to watch the whaling industry in its primitive form and also to take part in the capture of a large whale. When the ice permitted, they crossed to Labrador and made an attempt to penetrate into the country by one of its many rivers. A guide they hired proved untrustworthy in the extreme, and after they were well into the interior, lured them away from the river by a series of gross misstatements, up into the barren country of snow and rock. Here...
...Harvard Hall; and we try, particularly by means of the large duplicate collection in Harvard Hall, to keep fairly abreast with the demand in the large courses. On the other hand, there are certain books which men are expected to buy for themselves and which we do not attempt to duplicate. There are, of course, others of which our supply of one or two copies is inadequate, and some such cases will doubtless always exist, since only a small sum (comparatively) can be devoted to dupli- cation without crippling the Library's purchases in other directions. Most of the money...
...also true that these identical books were given by a professor in that department, for whose students adequate provision had not been made. It is also true that there are a few extra copies of required works in the Harvard Hall Library, but so far as we know no attempt is made to call the attention of the uninitiated to this fact, and even if Harvard Hall is included, we still maintain that not enough books are provided. In this connection we would suggest that, when additional copies are to be found in the Harvard Hall Library, a notice...
...that this equestrian statue was erected in his memory. There is, however, no direct evidence of this, and the statue itself shows unmistakable affinity to some princely figures of Rheims Cathedral. It is, therefore, probably safest to consider it as an ideal impersonation of a mediaeval ruler. While the attempt made by some critics to identify this statue with the youthful Parzival is fantastical, it cannot be denied that in the far-away, dreamy, but spirited look of the rider there is something that suggests the Grail-seeker...
...much do you know"? but "Are you qualified to profit by instruction in Harvard College"? As a means of determining the extent of this qualification, a considerably smaller set of requirements would be more efficient; for at the average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners insisted on higher standards in fewer subjects, however, the result would be two-fold: the candidates would have to gain an intelligent command of these...