Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arvin avoids doing what many biographers have done to their subjects. He does not go too far in evaluating the contemporary comment and criticism voiced by the socialists of Whitman's period in an attempt to illuminate the attitudes of Whitman himself. He does not make of Whitman an intellectually unified individual at the expense of verity, he does not even make him an intellectual in the restricted sense of the term. For once a biographer has finished his work without creating a god or devil out of the subject. Whitman was neither a radical nor a reactionary...
...echoing through the buildings of Harvard for many years, in fact these cries have been so insistent that they have not ceased long enough to consider whether or not anything is being done about it. Several years ago in Eliot House joint tutorial conferences were set up in an attempt to draw the students out of the isolation of their own field of concentration and show them that a subject can be approached in more ways than one. Spasmodically a few other Houses pursued the same plan, but it was only the initiative of a few men that saved...
Members of Kitchen Workers' A. F. of L. Union 186 walked out of the Georgian cafeteria Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. Local 186 has had considerable success in the University, having organized 80 per cent of the kitchen help, but failed in an attempt to get a closed shop for the A.F. of L. last...
...Coordinating Committee formed from the Executive Board or the five chairmen, will attempt to link the group with similar organizations, local and national...
...terms of the procedure agreed upon pending approval of University authorities, the organizations will attempt to get Catholic and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution out of Germany and will pay for their room and board in Cambridge if the University will grant them scholarship to cover their tuition...