Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LAYMAN invariably suffers a severe shock when he reads a book on religion and finds that it is neither an attempt at conversion nor an attack on his conscience. The concept that a religious book is hurled from a pulpit dies hard in the popular mind, but Dean Sperry has done much to explode this theory in his lectures in the Lowell Institute published in book form under the name of Strangers and Pilgrims...
...picking applicants, Housemasters attempt roughly to choose a cross-section of the class; in this they are aided by the Central Committee on House Admissions, which provides them with a table showing the make-up of the class according to such criteria as concentration fields, schools, and academic standing...
...attempt to enable Freshmen to face more intelligence the problem involved in gaining admission to a House, the CRIMSON will run a series of articles on the many phases of this annually recurring headache...
...seems a sketchy presentation of Mr. Rubenstein, it is only because many of the pictures are either studies for murals of pure exercises in body composition. The sponsors have naturally been limited in their choice, but for future exhibitions,--and there certainly should be many of them,--they should attempt to gather a more coherent representation of an artist's work...
...attempt to find new directions in radio drama and to reach a higher level of intelligence in productions than now offered will be the aim of the Literary Committee of the Radio Workshop. They will deal particularly with the theory and practice of poetic drama...