Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, Army engineer, onetime West Point athletics chief. Lieutenant-Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor must face: enforcement of the Oct. 24 minimum wage boost to 30? (from 25?) per hour; the maximum workweek reduction from 44 hours...
...Night Must Fall" since its premiere three years ago, has graduated from first-run originality into the revival class which must depend heavily on the originality of the production. Alan Gray Holmes's stock company has made an attempt to give the play that added novelty of interpretation, and has in part succeeded. What success the production has attained can be attributed almost solely to Erford Gage, director-actor, who gives every indication of crashing into the big leagues before long...
...word document, drawn up last June by Dean Ferguson, the Administration has defended the discharge of the ten assistant professors as a budgetary necessity. Furthermore, the memorandum contends that the Administration leaned over backward in an attempt to retain as many assistant professors as possible...
...problem of note-taking from countless angels. This multiplicity of methods is no cause for dismay except that it too often includes one disastrous plan; not taking any notes at all. This practice, and that of taking too voluminous reading notes, are the chief butts of faculty criticism. No attempt is made to change a man's individual style of notes unless they are unintelligible or illegible. Such supervision, restricted as it is to one elementary course of an unusual kind, can hardly be called a threat to Harvard's liberal scheme of education...
...sister university Harvard has always enjoyed the reputation of being an institution where a gentleman could acquire an education in a gentlemanly manner. At Harvard, so the generalization runs, there is no attempt at prep-schoolish supervision of students... Suddenly this happy picture is rudely shattered for us by an announcement by the Harvard History Department that henceforth students in History 1, a large survey course, will have their lecture and reading notes subjected to periodic scrutiny...