Word: attempts
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...system of undergraduate work, as it is the only one in which the element of individual fitness is allowed to play a part. There are as many different temperaments in a college community as there are different men. All cannot be made to conform to the same standard. The attempt to establish such a standard gives us merely the out-word form of scholarship and not its real benefits. The worth of a liberal study does not depend primarily upon the subject matter studied but upon the response which it awakens in a student...
Another advantage of the free elective system is that it allows adequate room for the individual interest. This depends upon the psychological law that action varies as interest. A student will reap no benefits from a study unless he is to a certain degree interested in it. The attempt to compel a man to apply himself to subjects in which he has no interest does not result in any aggressive intellectual effort...
...Social Question" by S. Hale '05 is a creditable attempt to point out some of the causes of the social disturbances which have been taking place this year. The question is not susceptible of proper treatment in the small space allotted to it, but the article, such space allotted to it, but the article, such as it is, is a serviceable summary of events and an indeed of possible future action. The difficulties are traced to the influence of the clubs, and the general conclusions seem to be that the best solution of the social troubles now dietunbing undergraduate life...
...applying black varnish to the fire place in room 50, when the surface he was covering was ignited from a very low fire in the grate. From this blaze the pot, containing about a pint of varnish, was ignited. The painter put the pot into a coal scuttle and attempted to carry it out of the building through the corridor. The heat from the pot became so intense that the scuttle was dropped near the corridor door. The fire was drawn up the stair well and soon the whole entry was in flames. An alarm was at once given...
...Surette of Columbia lectured yesterday afternoon on "Beethoven's String Quartet in F major, op. 59, No. 1." The lecturer said in part that no attempt should be made to interpret with any specific meaning this quartet of Beethoven's. It is a piece of constructive music--a wonderfully suggestive combination of allegory, fancy, comedy and tragedy, differing essentially in these points from the music of Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven's immediate predecessors. Their music, typical of the taste of the eighteenth century, is more obvious, making a direct appeal and containing no suggestion of hidden meaning. To illustrate...