Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that I have not read in the papers or periodicals any mention of any attempt having been made to start a movement toward the erection of a Museum of Peace, prompts me to write to ask if such a Museum has not been considered and if not your idea as to the practicability...
...modern problem might be dealt with in a modern way, by the application of technical knowledge. Not infrequently there has been expressed a hope that the men of American universities would do more than recognize the value to the nation's development of their technical work, but would attempt to apply it at times to certain problems through more direct means than books or the training of capable men. In modern times many problems are too complex to be solved judiciously by anyone who is not a specialist in the field involved. And yet the feeling has been that...
...group of drawings and paintings to be shown here has been collected over a period of several years from various foreign and American collections. The Beaux Arts institute, in sending the collection to colleges, to be put on public exhibition, is making an attempt to further general public knowledge of and appreciation...
According to Moscovitz, the new orchestra will attempt to present as many musical compositions as possible that are produced by students. An announcement of the opening concert will be forthcoming sometime within the next month...
...most noteworthy fact allied with these figures is that all of these men are committed to try for a distinction degree through a process of specialized academic work in a limited field. For this work they may or may not be fitted; they may or may not desire to attempt it. But they have no choice. The examination passed in Junior year was not only a ticket to the honors arena; if dismissed from their minds their field as a whole. Without this examination, without dismissing their entire field to embrace specialization, they cannot receive a distinction degree...