Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical rather than theoretical. Especially significant is its inclusion of a course in the actualities of politics. "Such a course," says the commission, "should not follow the usual lines of academic instruction by discussing such topics as public opinion, electoral procedure and formal party organization, but should endeavor to acquaint the student with the actual political situations which he is likely to encounter during his later career. It should aim to give him a clear insight into the workings of the politician's mind as well as an acquaintance with the politician's technique...
...university will endeavor to render a real and increasing service to the cause of better governmental administration through this new school," according to the official announcement...
...outset at least, there is no likelihood that any considerable group of college graduates possessing only bachelor's degrees will be admitted. The school will be primarily for students of more advanced qualification. It will endeavor to provide training in public administration chiefly for graduates of law schools and technical schools and for others who have received advanced degrees or have done advanced work in some special field and who desire to acquire a broad knowledge of the practical problems of government as a means of entering the public service and advancing to positions of importance...
...which no instructional data is now available anywhere and therefore it will be necessary for the faculty to proceed cautiously and to seek the advice of experienced government men frequently. The university officials realize, it was explained, that public administration, now broadening its activities into new fields of human endeavor, is creating a demand for a type of training different from that heretofore provided and it is this demand which the school will seek to fill...
Champagne Waltz (Paramount). The perennial and expensive effort to make a Grace Moore out of Gladys Swarthout seemed to have more logic some time ago when Miss Moore was a more important box-office draw. This version of the endeavor is a heavy-footed musical naively designed to combine the best features of jazz with those of the Viennese waltz. It concerns one Buzzy Bellew (Fred MacMurray), leader of a swing band which, reaching Vienna in a continental tour, ruins the business of the Franz & Elsa Strauss Waltz Palace. In the U. S. consulate, Elsa (Gladys Swarthout), who has gone...