Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...protest against the beer are not engaged in a vigorous attempt to keep from drinking it themselves. They could do that without all these letters. Obviously they are trying to reform their neighbors, and to force all the members of the University to share their own abstemiousness. Granting that beer is harmful, there would remain some question of the wisdom of this proceeding in a University that attempts to train men for a life where most people are necessarily run by themselves and not by various self appointed supervisors...
...Osborne emphasized the fact that there is no such thing as a typical criminal class-that the inmates of the prisons are not different in any material respect from many outside, except that they "have been caught." He spoke of the work of the State Prison Commission in its attempt to substitute new methods...
...blush to say it--imbibing. I distinctly saw two young men--(I have reported their names to Mr. Tibbetts of the Christian Association)--engaged in drinking a yellow fluid which I knew intuitively to be beer. I was still more aghast to see that they made absolutely no attempt to conceal their act, and, indeed, actually seemed to enjoy it. Imagine my feelings, fellows! I asked a policeman to put a stop to it at once. He refused. I have sent his number to Mr. Tibbetts. The officer informed me that it was a nightly occurrence! Think...
This amazing outcome is contrary to the customary experience with several other elements, notably copper, silver, iron, sodium, and chlorine, each of which seems to give a constant atomic weight, no matter what the geographical source may have been. No attempt is made here to discuss the theoretical aspects of the facts presented, but attention is called to their qualitative agreement with the hypothesis brought forward by Dr. Fajans and by Dr. Soddy, that some of the places in the periodic table, corresponding to high atomic weight should perhaps include several elements, different in atomic weights, but very similar...
...Gluck, in Sanders Theatre on Monday and Tuesday evenings, April 12 and 13, at 8 o'clock. This will be the first time in the history of undergraduate college music in America that the production of an opera has ever been seriously undertaken, and the outcome of the attempt will be watched with great interest. Dr. A. T. Davison '06, instructor in music in the University and the coach of the University Glee Club, and Mrs. H. H. Gallison, instructor of vocal music at Radcliffe, have launched the project and are planning to make it one of the most important...