Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does Geology 4. Professor Mather's lively nature, however, makes even an account of the Devonian Age less musty than it might else be. The laboratory work is eminently uninspiring. The section men, on the whole with Professor Mather's teaching ability and personal magnetism, make little or no attempt to raise the study of topographical maps from a boring task...
...willing steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty terrible-if true. Upton Sinclair has long enjoyed the privilege of being far better known than any of his books...
...heretofore, no attempt will be made to include every course beginning after the midyear examination period; to do so would be both useless and impossible. Only those courses which are deemed of sufficient interest to the general undergraduate body will be considered. The criticism of each course will be an attempt to present a succinct and honest judgment both of the subject and its manner of presentation...
...attempt to solve a phase of the eating difficulty at the University a topic widely discussed last year, the Phillips Brooks House Association will open next week a room in which break-fasts and lunches will be served at a nominal price to men taking part in P. B. B. activities, and students commuting from Boston and vicinity...
...attempt has been made, so far as practicable, to confine the reading to a few works of great intrinsic value. Lists of the assignments have been for two weeks in the possession of the tutors, who are in this way enabled to direct the work of their students in preparation for the Reading Period...