Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollywood Revue", at the University for four days, easily takes a place among the best screen musical shows, in spite of a somewhat tiresome manner of presentation that involves letting the curtain fall every five minutes. But this straight revue method fortunately prevents any attempt to graft the customary inane plot on the picture. The individual scenes are introduced by Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel, who for the most part are successful in making this barren role humorous. The acts themselves are excellent, with the exception of a peculiarly irritating sob-ballad by Charles King...
...will have to work. Moreover, work not in a specified field offers a chance for contacts outside the particular professional pale which are daily becoming more difficult for the super-specializing American. In the final analysis, college really represents an a vocational rather than a vocational institution, and any attempt to change this intention would only lead to the harming of the many for the good of the very...
...decision of the College Entrance Examination Board to attempt to revise their English examination indicates a renewed spirit of change in a body which was rapidly becoming entrenched in the traditions of a none too liberal past. It is especially fortunate that the change is contemplated in those examinations that deal with English, chiefly because they are most frequently required. Under the present system there are several rather obvious faults which would warrant careful consideration on the part of this committee...
...Harvard University soccer team will meet Brown today at 12 o'clock on the field behind the Business School in the last contest of its preliminary season. Today the eleven will attempt to break the string of indecisive or losing games which has dogged the team since the Northeastern victory. The team was tied by M. I. T. and the Navy, both 1 to 1, and lost to Amherst, 4 to 2, and to Pennsylvania...
However, all of this attempt to acquire equality seems to have gone a little too far. In the first place, women have had centuries of practice in forcing men to ask the proper question at the correct time while the male experience has been confined to merely acting on the hints. Moreover, the less favored of the female sex have built up that great tradition of not beautiful, but nice, so admirably supported by well meaning aunts, while man is merely conceited or ugly. Men have, after all, been fairly patient in bearing with feminine supremacy, and it does seem...