Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...papyri and the application of archaeology to literature have the same fascination and call into play the same faculties of the pioneer as experimentation in a new problem of biological or medical science. The study of the interdependence of art and literature may well lead to the attempt at a synthesis of all branches of culture in a given period, a subject which, like Comparative Literature, may some day become the province of a definite department in our universities, and which has always been the ideal of the doctor's degree in Classical Philology at Harvard...
...attempt to bridge over the gap between theoretical training and practical business needs, the National City Bank of New York has arranged a practical course of education for foreign banking commerce. The bank plans to employ a limited number of college men each year from Harvard, Yale, Princeton. New York University, Columbia, Cornell, and Pennsylvania. In addition arrangement is contemplated by which the plan will be extended to certain western institutions as well...
...most pleasing and successful part of the magazine is its cover an artistic photograph of the facade Widener Library, taken by moonlight by R. H. Norweb '16. Even the diabocal printer, with all his little devils, he failed in his attempt to lure from the skilful piece of photography its beauty and grace. It is an unusual and inspiring view of the great hall of tomes...
...Dramatic Club's sixteenth play competition, open to undergraduates and recent graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe, ended last week. A definite attempt to arouse other than graduate interest in play-writing was made. Yet of the plays submitted, fifty per cent. were written by students at Radcliffe, and not half the manuscripts handed in from the University were the work of undergraduates. This situation is more significant following on the award of the Craig Prize to a Radcliffe student. If budding dramatists do not exist in the College nothing can be said; but assuming there are men of latent writing...
...members of the Regiment are expected to attend this lecture in uniform and should assemble in the Union at 5 o'clock. No attempt will, however, be made to arrange the Regiment by companies as had previously been thought desirable...