Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Harvard Student Council, which traditionally acts in concert with University Hall, solemnly took heed of an old and flourishing institution for the first time by appointing a four-man committee "to determine whether the tutoring schools have grown out of their natural proportion and whether any effort should be made to curb their activities...
...editors are planning to raise about $300 for initial expenses by selling charter subscriptions at $5 each and also by contributions. During the Christmas vacation an effort to secure alumni backing will be made...
...being made a cooperative one by a government plan being directed by Grant Wood, famed Iowa artist, and carried out by University of Iowa NYA and WPA student workers. The three panels of the Iowa State College mural project will be II feet high and 41 feet long. Every effort is being made to have the murals historically correct in every detail...
Seated in a luxurious theatre watching a picture that is technically and artistically excellent, we are apt to forget the early "flickers" of the past and the enormous improvement that years of effort have wrought in the development of the motion picture. Such old favorites as "Wash Day Troubles" and "The Fugitive" are not only highly amusing to see today after several decades of progress, but are interesting in themselves for their amateurish depiction of people at the time that they were made...
These pictures have been shown at several other colleges and were very well received by students and faculty alike, both because they were often very funny, and because of their educational value. Through its conscientious effort the Film Society is performing a notable service to the University and deserves success...