Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...taking this action the University has put in definite form a statement that has been expected for some days. In accordance with their policies, the Faculty are making every effort consistent with the position of the University to place the full military and naval strength of the College at the disposal of the Government. Although no such decisive step has yet been made at Yale and Princeton, these universities are expected to take similar action in the near future...
...experiment. The commission is appointed so that the information obtained by the experiment may be intelligently presented. The fact that the operation of the Act is strictly limited to not more than eight months, is the strongest single fact which gives the Act its predominant effect as an effort to secure information by experiment. The predominant effect of the Act, therefore, is such that sustaining it will not open any unobstructed way for attack by the legislature upon any fundamental condition of the existence of the social order. The decision does not in the least tend to establish that wage...
...stronger, their differences less fundamental than the chance observer would suppose. When representatives from two such remote universities can be brought to that mutual understanding which is the basis of all true friendship and respect, intercollegiate athletics will have more than justified the large amount of money and effort that have already been spent upon them...
Another ambulance, bearing on its sides "Amherst" in large letters, has already sailed for France. It is a donation made by the alumni of Amherst College. Exactly 100 graduates contributed to a fund for the purchase of the car. An effort has been put forth to obtain a graduate of Amherst as driver...
...already at the Government's service. Only about seven units have been enrolled to date for patrol duty, and as Lieutenant R. F. Bernard, U. S. N., who has charge of this branch of the Naval Reserve, has plans for 50 units, more volunteers are needed at once. Every effort is being made by the Committee of Public Safety of Massachusetts to enlist more men for this work, and the outlying towns are being canvassed for recruits. At Gloucester about 50 volunteers have enlisted and at Cohasset over 35 men, mostly from the working class, have volunteered for the coast...