Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studio practice with line, forms and colors which is intended less as preparation for a professional career than as a means of gaining insight into the line, form and colors of the great masters. Too often this analytical approach becomes merely a series of five-finger exercises, an attempt to put the Principles of Design through their paces, to make drawings and paintings which will be illustrations of basic principles of order, not an attempt to explore the relation between what the artist wants to say, to describe, to express, and the particular means he chooses with which...
...started when Jack Baldwin, San Jose, California, sophomore, tried to hang on to his local reputation an a Don Juan and five dollars, which an attempt to kiss twenty girls out of twenty-two in a half hour. Eight or the girls demurely denied him his fare. The fourteen maidens who succumbed offered him just consolation for the lost fiver...
Open to all Harvard and Radcliffe students, one of the stated aims of the organization is to investigate "the relationship of art to society." Members, who have held a total of six meetings to date, will attempt to obtain a studio-workshop...
This statement seems to imply that the Department of the Classics is somewhat of a laggard in the attempt to combine its own field with other related fields in a general program of humanism. The exact opposite is the truth. The first combined field of the sort described was not History and Literature but "Literature," in which either Greek or Latin is combined with some Modern Language. This plan was initiated by members of the Departments of the Classics and Modern Languages in 1903, History and Literature following in 1906. I happened to be a member of both committees...
...individuals, not prepossessed of a superior or supercilious attitude toward the antics of our fellow students of other schools in general. WE are neither children to follow the rowdy trend, nor prematurely old, to withdraw completely. The Harvard group may be heterogeneous, and we are proud of it and attempt to become more representative of the U.S., but anyone of us might have fitted into the so called "Joe College" life at Cornell or Pennsylvania, for example. There is no reason why a Harvardian should experience the feeling that within limits, the normal activities of any college are beyond...