Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...forenoon. The program of sports will begin at once. Details will be announced later. Among other amusements will be baseball on an excellent diamond, various track events, including a sack-race, and water-sports of all kinds. Seniors who expect to take part in the last-named field of endeavor must provide themselves with some sort of bathing suits or tights...
Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Stimson analyzed the action of Congress in regard to corporations. There are two methods of treating corporate growth; first, to recognize the necessity of the economic change and to endeavor to regulate and control it; second, to forbid and penalize all combinations. These two methods are diametrically opposed, but Congress, in the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Act, has tried to reconcile them, but without success. When the Sherman Act was passed Congress was aware that an evil existed but did not know how to cope with it. The act was therefore made very vague...
...efforts of college graduates to social service work has everything in his favor. Each year are graduated from Harvard men who have taken part while in College in Brooks House work. At present, the great majority of these men never pursue the work after graduation. This cessation of social endeavor is not due ordinarily to any loss of enthusiasm, but rather to the fact that the opportunity in a strange community does not present itself. The organization which Mr. Cutts will head will point out to every man interested his opportunity to help his fellow...
...endeavor to bring the University into closer relations with the city of Cambridge, it was voted by the Corporation of the University to make the following proposition to the citizens: first, all Cambridge boys who come from high schools, and whose parents are unable to pay the tuition fee, are to be exempt from it during Freshman year; second, subject to the approval of the Dean of the Summer School, rates charged in the Summer School shall be reduced for all Cambridge teachers; third, all University athletic fields in Cambridge are to be offered as playgrounds for the children...
...real work which for most of us will follow graduation. To obtain all the enjoyment possible out of College is laudable, but it is unfortunate that this desire should result in a self-centered and idle existence instead of one of broad, public-spirited good fellowship and earnest endeavor...