Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purpose is to arouse public opinion to aid in the passage of the committee's bill to prevent the interstate commerce of child labor products. The bill is being held up in the Senate for lack of public pressure. While the exhibit is displayed in the Union, an attempt will be made to enroll new members of the committee...
...author of "The Young Faun," who depicts not merely an afternoon, but several of the last mornings and evenings of the wild creature's life. "Shoes of Unity" is the name Mr. Littell gives his composition which, in spite of some harsh transpositions and prose lines that mar his attempt at simplicity, is a good work...
...indeed, somewhat ironical that it should be necessary for President Lowell to defend for himself that freedom of speech which he has so firmly insisted upon for both Faculty and students. And it is as unfortunate as it is unaccountable that some Harvard men, by their published utterances, should attempt to foster the impression, expressly denied by himself, that he speaks for the University...
...names that have not appeared on the board, the best is the thoughtful "Prepared--for What?" Of Mr. E. A. LeRoy, Jr. If he is somewhat given to accepting as fact all that he reads in the newspapers, he at least reads them; and the seriousness of his attempt to arrive at sane conclusions is a welcome reassurance in the face of current talk as to the lack of intelligent interest in the war on the part of undergraduates. Mr. Burman's "Nail in the Shoe" is the best of the stories, but the reviewer is sentimental enough to wish...
...attempt to revive any of Shakspere's plays invariably presents to the modern dramatic producer numerous obstacles, such as scenery, metre, and language. The revival of "Henry IV, Part II," by the Delta Upsilon is especially a feat, for in addition to all of these difficulties. That the existence of these obstacles has been fully realized is evident from the fact that for almost a century no attempt has been made to produce it in America. Particularly appropriate is this selection in that it represents the first step in the Harvard celebration of the Slinkspere tercentenary...