Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving spirit in the circulation of the petition has been Dale Pontius, assistant in Government, who is a member of the Teachers' Union. Copies of the paper will be sent to all seven of the Cambridge Representatives and Senators, in an effort to impress upon them the fact that it will mean loss of important votes if they do not support repeal of the oath...
There was something to be said for the end; the means are ridiculous. As things are now, the candidate must seek the office, not the office the candidate. The aspiring Senior must present a trial oration to a Council deputation, in an effort to prove his facile humor. To this procedure I have two objections: first, that while one's Commencement Day may provide sufficient inspiration for the springs of mirth, a Student Councilman surely will not, and secondly, the men who will seek this office will be those who have gone through their College career grubbing for even...
...tried to think out her life in terms of mental and spiritual progress," agreed the proletarian Post. "The effort, it seems, betrayed...
...remaining symposia are on "Authority and the Individual" and "Independence, Convergence and Borrowing in Institutions, Thought, and Art." Effort is being made in these symposia to avoid the traditional barriers of specialized university study...
...that so eminent a scientist as James B. Conant, who understands today's demands for scholarly specialization as well as anyone can, likewise sees the need of new synthesis, new simplification and generalization in America's higher education. He is prepared to fight for these gains, and in such effort he deserves all possible aid. --Boston Transcript