Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose that two-thirds of the undergraduate body are the indolent non-workers which you imply. What sends a student to a tutoring school in nine-tenths of the cases is not primarily a last-minute effort to get a course into his head; it is rather the desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him. I can speak only with authority as to my own experience in the English Department in the years 1933-37. It was significant that in the well-taught courses...
Some military experts have long thought that, rather than a suicidal attack on the subterranean forts, tank traps and concrete pillboxes that guard the French and Belgian frontiers, German tacticians might attempt a lightning flank attack through the lightly armed Netherlands...
...keener spirit of competition between the first and second crews than was evident at any time last year. In fact, it is the second crew's persistence in beating the first boat that has necessitated a continued shifting of men from one boat to another in an attempt to find the fastest combination...
University officials have held one conference with a Cambridge citizens' committee in an attempt to iron out Harvard-Cambridge financial relations and reach some lasting settlement of the vexing tax question, it was learned last night...
...desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him" which drives a student to tutoring schools, according to one letter. A father bemoans the fact that a professor refused his Freshman son needed aid, forcing him to a tutoring school. Two Freshmen accuse the University of ignoring the problem which first year men meet in organizing their work and in facing an entirely new system. Others lambaste excessive and dull reading lists...