Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abolished. This brings us to its general attitude. Certainly, the Council has no swords to draw with University Hall, for Dean Hanford has been the acme of cooperation. Certainly, also, because of Harvard's Jaissez-faire attitude toward the student, it would be a mistake for the Council to attempt to discipline his private affairs. Harvard is too much a place for individualized learning to favor such practical training in citizenship as the ideal student council is supposed to afford. For students in those colleges which impose strict regulations upon undergraduate life, it is right that they have a loud...
...past, have been divided between the administration of college affairs and independent reports. The major investigations turned this year to the problems of advancement in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. . . . The Council of years to come would do well to follow up the budgetary report, and attempt to insure a roughly even distribution of funds. As the situation now stands, both the students and instructors in the Social Sciences are definitely at a disadvantage. . . . The Council has repeatedly urged that the Faculty consider President Conant's plan of spreading the burden of tutorial work to all the members...
...them from illegally conducted sit-downs. Said the Court: "There is nothing in the Wagner Act which deals with the subject of violence or any illegal acts committed by employes in the course of an industrial dispute, and in our opinion Congress did not by this enactment deprive or attempt to deprive the States of their police power to protect property rights or punish illegal acts committed in the course of labor disputes, nor do we think there is any merit in [the] contention that [State courts] cannot have jurisdiction of any phase of the relations between employer and employe...
...underwriting and brokerage, held that brokerage firms could legally keep their huge customers' balances so long as they segregated them in such a way that they would be "not available for use by the firm in its general business." Of the 60 sampled firms, just seven made any attempt to live up to this requirement...
...opera house, he spends years rehearsing choruses, teaching singers how to sing their parts, helping conductors whip scenes into shape. Eventually, if he shows talent, he is allowed to conduct an opera or two. Only after a long term as a full-fledged opera conductor does he attempt the exacting business of conducting a symphony orchestra. Conducting opera is like driving a 20-mule team, gives an ideal training for conductors. A Brahms symphony holds no technical terrors for a man who is able to keep a badly-rehearsed chorus, five or six erratic singers and an orchestra...