Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resemblance of this plan (the House plan) to President Wilson's will be readily perceived. In explaining the "Quad System" in 1907 President Wilson said it was an attempt "to draw the undergraduates into residential quads in which they shall eat as well as lodge together, and in which they shall, under the presidency of a resident member of the Faculty, regulate their corporate life by some simple means of self-government...
...three hundred couples at $8 a couple and 150 stags at $5 a stag must attend. Last year's dance, with probably more publicity than any previous affair, drew only two hundred and fifty couples and a hundred stags. Consequently the Committee lost money, even after a last minute attempt to reduce the expense to meet the occasion. First socially and second financially, the dance has suffered a decline...
...forms of the musical romance, that built about the love-story of a composer would seem to be the easiest to present and the most successful. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. The latest attempt, on the boards at the Majestic, entitled "White Lilacs," a romance with music, based on the life of Frederic Chopin, has all the failings and few of the fortes of the genre. That is to say, one does not enjoy fully either Chopin's music, or Herr Johannsen's play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with...
...when Senator Glass asked him what would happen, under the treaty, if the League of Nations took coercive measures to settle the Paraguay-Bolivian dispute. He ran his hands through his hair, hesitated, said that he did not think the U. S. could intervene provided the League did not attempt to overthrow the Paraguayan or Bolivian governments. He added, however, that European governments had previously used force in South America without U. S. objection, and that what ever we could do in South America with out the treaty we could continue to do with the treaty. This last statement...
...Beethoven's own words, 'I will grapple with Fate, it shall never pull me down'--to be compared only with Browning's 'God's in His heaven, all's right with the world,' and the peroration to Whitman's Mystic Trumpeter, 'Joy, joy, over all joy!' No adequate attempt could be made to translate the music into words. The Symphony is extremely subjective; indeed, autobiographic...