Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every man should have a wholesome horror of that happy-go-lucky state of doing nothing but enough class-room work to keep off probation. It is not so much brilliance as effort that is appreciated here--determination to accomplish something...
...that we are in the midst of Freshman and Senior elections, the urgency for definite rules governing their conduct becomes once more apparent. Every year those in charge spend unnecessary time and effort in evolving new regulations, whereas permanent rules drawn up by the Student Council would put a stop to the annual bickering and indecision. These are the questions which must be answered and answered in the near future: Who shall be eligible to vote? How shall a ballot be counted that is marked with but one or two preference instead of the required three? What...
...graduates." Those of us who are devoting all of our time and attention to the problem of training public servants of the highest standards for America's government and semi-public problems, are convinced more and more as time rolls on of the utter lack of wisdom in any effort to "train" for public service, as such, in undergraduate years at college. There are many reasons for this. In the first place, that man who devotes his attention to such "tool" subjects as personnel management, fire and police administration, etc., during undergraduate years must necessarily remove himself from the benefits...
...that the candidates of all parties are afforded equal broadcasting facilities. As yet campaign broadcasting is comparatively young, and the larger radio station owners have not had their partisan animosities seriously aroused. But, if ever such feeling should rise in the future, the American public should resist any effort at repeal of the law as they would an abolition of equal suffrage. An impartial Communications Commission should become as firm an American institution as the Bill of Rights...
Unintelligent and subversive is the recent proposal in the Massachusetts legislature for an assessment of 1% on all savings deposits. Such a regulation, if passed, would discourage on of the really sane, stable factors in our banking system. Saving accounts, although they average only $700, represent a definite effort on the part of some three million persons to set a portion of their earnings aside to accumulate a safe, certain interest rate, and to meet the unknown contingencies of the future...