Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subcommittee conducting hearings on the civil rights bill, Ervin began asking questions about "the abolition of trial by jury." This, he argued, would result from the civil contempt citations against persons disobeying the courts' injunctions under the new bill. It would, cried Ervin, be a "tragic error to attempt the protection of civil rights for any one group through a process which denies a liberty equally precious-that of trial by jury. The Administration's civil rights proposals will do exactly this...
...University opinion was beginning to wonder if the Union wasn't a failure after all. A few voices advocated putting membership dues on the term bill, but this attempt to co-erce Harvard into saving "Harvard Democracy" lost. Even freshmen could no longer be persuaded that it was their duty to join the Union...
...Crimson beat Brandeis 27 to 8 in a three-ring circus that saw six pitchers, including a major portion of the Brandeis outfield, parade across the mound in a vain attempt to control a 20-hit Harvard attack which included four home runs, a triple, and three doubles. It was often entertaining. But with the fine Holy Cross game only a day in the past, one had trouble calling it baseball...
...last minute attempt to take the Committee's finances out of the red, the Jubilee group has decided to allow upper-classmen to attend its Friday night dance-concert. Among the performers at the Union event will be Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, and Milt Hinton...
Unfortunately the rest of the April Advocate can make no such claims. Most of the work is a stringing together of diversions, a collection of imaginings without order. And this makes criticism both necessary and difficult, for the critic must attempt to define chaos...