Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...serious attempt is being made by a group of optimistic seniors at Yale to place the students of that institution on a bone-dry basis. There are many who doubt very much whether the attempt will succeed in the near future, but those who doubt admit that bone-dryness is sure to come within a few years...
...average professor, with his exact mind and his curious notions of what the public ought to know, is ill-fitted to run a newspaper but he does contend that something ought to be done to insure the use of decent English in news stories and at least an attempt at a reasonable continuity of policy and purpose. Consider the case of the Princetonian and the Harvard Crimson. During the first semester of the college year the Princetonian was violently in favor of the extermination of the university's club system. Since March 1, it has been opposed to the movement...
...narrative sketches in this number, Mr. Davidson's "Mr. Brodie Lapses From Virtue" is the most successful, and Mr. Ness' "On Hearing the 'Apres-Midi' of Debussy" is the most interesting. There are grave objections against any attempt to render the effects of one art in the terms of another, but the beauty of phrase and image in this carefully wrought prose poem is nearly sufficient to tease one out of thought and critical severity. In "The Ship" Mr. Low prepares an elaborate and impressive setting for an action which is not presented or even adequately suggested. There...
...last two years of college, instead of having class unity, each class has 17 different units with different identities; there is but little attempt on the part of one unit to understand another. The energy that ought to be expended in making a greater Princeton is spent in promoting a better club section for the next year...
...chief lack of "The Love Mill" as we see it in its youthful newness. The basic qualities of musical glitter and comedy brilliance are present, but to bring them out really successfully a process of careful smoothing and refining must be gone through. There is here also the sincere attempt on the part of the producer to give more than just the average "show." Cast, costumes and scenery reflect much care and thought in the selection...