Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debate, which will be broadcast from 2:30 to 3 P. M. (EST) over WBZ, Harvard will attempt to prove that "the small college offers more opportunity for the full development of the individual than does the large university...
...Stanley Brown and His Crimsonians," a twelve-piece outfit composed of members of the University Band, will attempt to trace the growth of swing music in a program to be given in Sanders Theatre Tuesday under the auspices of the Widener Theatre Collection...
Thus have the tremendous potentialities of radio, especially in the field of education, been generally ignored. Harvard's Radio Workshop with its student workers and faculty advisers will attempt to point the way to the correction of these ills. From every angle it will attack the problem of presentation of ideas through sound. To quote its Constitution: "The object is to study and perfect new techniques for radio in the writing and producing of plays, poetry, and fiction, and effective presentation of political and sociological subjects of a more general educational character, and in the composition of music...
...educational institutions, the University will be obliged to increase the return now provided by its pension plan and to grant the Union's demand that it be put on a voluntary basis. Perhaps an employment office to provide summer work can be instituted. But if there should be any attempt to use the bargaining power of the closed shop as a big stick with which to beat unreasonable concessions from the University, or by means of which to foist unsatisfactory workers on the dining halls, then the present harmonious agreement would be disrupted. To keep face in a socially-conscious...
...executive committee of the Harvard Student Union, after hearing a report from the Labor Committee and discussing it at length, voted support of the dining-hall employees' attempt to better their working conditions." Rufus Mathewson '41, Chairman of the HSU Labor Committee...