Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large, however, the new Yale plan rings true. The sum of human knowledge represents too large a sea upon which to set the unwary undergraduate adrift. Much criticism, often from. Yale undergraduates themselves, has been heard concerning a student's undirected, purposeless effort. Some integration, some degree of "genuine mastery of some one field", in President Angell's words, seems necessary in the modern world...
...have been in London seven weeks and the weekly reading of TIME has been the one thing that has cheered us through the muddle and jumble of job-hunting and the effort of combating new (though mostly old) surroundings...
...peace in the cut-throat Far East freight war between Dutch and Japanese shipping companies. By quiet, patient insistence Premier Colijn has forced both Japanese and Dutch shipmen to agree upon preliminary peace terms and these will now be used by diplomats of Tokyo and The Hague in an effort to make a binding economic treaty between the Empire of Hirohito and that of Wilhelmina...
...active service when his desire to make a martyr of himself ebbed, his service in Ireland, Palestine, his return to his command in France. A simple, moving book, it has little in common with most War literature in its dry ironic tone, its study of Sassoon's effort to free his mind of doubt and concentrate on the task of making himself a good officer for his men. Written with a matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when Sassoon describes the mental hospital, where the shell-shocked patients were cheerful and normal curing...
...Special effort will be made this year by the Chairman of the Foreign Student Committee, Edward T. Ladd '38, to integrate foreign students with the normal life of the college. Informal dinners in the Houses and at the Union have proved successful in recent years and will be particularly emphasized. Following initial effort on the part of the Committee valuable and interesting friendships have been made...