Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans of the Phillips Brooks House to incorporate medical and dental students in its social service activities, mark a definite attempt to effect periodical examination of all the children in the care of the Boston settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical...
Good stated that there was ample supply of water for legitimate domestic and fire usage, but that there had been a great deal of criminal waste in turning on hydrants for long periods at a time in an attempt to flood areas for skating...
Although the status of minor sports at Harvard has always been secure, there is one outstanding exception; the lack of a University boxing team. Two years ago an informal match was held with Tech, but since that time there has been no attempt whatsoever to establish even a semi-official organization. Consequently the activity is now confined to the annual University tournament, and to instruction with Mr. Conley...
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...members of the Class of 1930 will receive today from the Alumni Placement Service a questionnaire constituting the first attempt in four years to determine what callings Harvard men intend to follow and where they expect to pursue them. It asks the Seniors to divulge their inmost desires and plans for the careers upon which they will embark in June, and is prepared for the purpose of collecting information necessary for the effective permanent employment of Seniors next spring...