Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turning to the subject of "Rosalie," the glorifler extraordinary of American femininity remarked that the attempt had been made to combine two types of music; those of George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg, each extremely successful in itself. "They make great variety and a good combination," he continued. "Another innovation is that the story is based on reality. I have found out that the American public appreciates a sensible plot more than the general blurb we used to present years ago. That whole West Point affair was true, you know. We therefore thought the scenery should be real too. The music...
...unique and significant event in the educational molding of a man, it deserves and demands long hours of cerebration. For it is often the one time that any literary production of the author appears in print. It is the single monument of his pictorial career, and on this attempt he triumphs or fails. Indeed, rarely does a mother who has been disappointed in the sex of her first born experience such difficulties in naming her child as the chairman of groups applying for senior dormitories in devising a witty psuedonym...
Spiritual suicide is a cruel delicacy for the current theatre. With amazing daring, Mr. Kelly has written of two people in whom daring had died. The thoughtful, courageous quality of his attempt is scarcely obscured by deficiencies in his result. Passages of perilously rich writing intrude; clarity of concept is not constant. Yet the play, provocative, never bores...
...advisers still operative here will no doubt suggest itself. But the consideration that it is the younger man, to fill an actual need, who will seek the advice of his willing elder, is enough to destroy a superficial similarity. Moreover, the association of the two is unhampered by any attempt at regulation by college authorities. Supplied with all the necessary information about his disciple, the graduate, by letter or conference, can advise him as he sees fit, and with perfect frankness and freedom. And the fact that no compulsion is placed on the undergraduate either in this respect, but that...
...greater responsibility and influence it needs a distinctive type of man, a man with a trained systematic mind capable of embracing and understanding every phase of faculty and student interest and activity, a certain amount of initiative, scholastic ability, and the pessimism which comes only after a long attempt to please the public. Such men might be born, but in the newspapers field they are more often made. And if the university dailies are to have the best possible editors, it is incumbent on the preparatory schools, to supply them. It is for this reason that the CRIMSON...