Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domestic difficulties of his son were the least of cadaverous-faced Haile Selassie's troubles last week. In an effort to replenish his diminishing funds, the Negus was juggling several lawsuits in the air at once. Pleading that his client, the Emperor of Ethiopia was in a "distressing position," a Paris attorney attempted to convince the French High Court that Haile Selassie was the legal owner of 8,650 shares of Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad stock worth some $1,500,000. Backing away from a decision that Premier Mussolini would consider hostile, the court decided it was incompetent...
...initial investment. The University, on the other hand, owns several vacant lots near Leverett and Dunster Houses, and farther out by the Maintenance Building. The cost of equipping these lots as playgrounds, with swings and possibly a pair of goal-posts, would be slight, and, if a genuine effort were made in this direction, perhaps the City of Cambridge could be persuaded to lend more help to these youngsters than it does at present. If this were done, workers could be found to organize play, make the fields popular, and instill in the children the elements ofsportsmanship and good conduct...
...work as a stiff course with examinations. No outside source can help the student; he must produce his work by himself and by his own investigation. He may even have to resort to using a stack privilege in Widener to get his facts. But this task is worth the effort, since a thesis written is a thesis learned, while a course taken is not always a course learned...
...proposals do not represent anything revolutionary, and they are to be administered and directed, in the interests of all concerned, by experts, doctors. It is hard to believe that there can be anything but good to be expected from such a venture to improve, in one and the same effort, the conditions of the poor and the standing and service of the medical profession...
Coordinating the departments that watch over the progress of each and every Freshman is an important task. It is not unlikely that in the future one man could be appointed to have a position simply as coordinator of Freshman officialdom. The fact that an effort is being made towards alleviating a situation so detrimental to the career of the Freshman class as shown by last night's meeting, is in itself a step in the right direction...