Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faculty of the School and the officers of the Society feel that this activity will become one of the most important in the history of the Society, especially in helping the individual student to determine properly his field of endeavor...
...newspapers field they are more often made. And if the university dailies are to have the best possible editors, it is incumbent on the preparatory schools, to supply them. It is for this reason that the CRIMSON cup is yearly placed at the goal of greater journalistic endeavor...
Politics itself is supposed to be a school. Few politicians endeavor to better themselves by formal study in midcareer. Washington newsgatherers last week pointed with pride to burly U. S. Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, onetime (1907-10) Harvard footballer and cum laude student, upon discovering last fortnight that he had enrolled for night classes (two per week), at the Washington Branch of the American Institute of Banking. Mr. Fish wanted to know more about he fundamentals of banking, not because of an appointment to any fiscal committee of the house, but because of a "situation which...
...been using the case system for years, and has found it an excellent way of stimulating independent thought. A few years ago, prospective business men went to law school in order to obtain training in scientific methods of research and unshackled thinking--prime requisites in any field of endeavor. Now the mountain has come to Mahomet, and the Harvard Business School uses the case method, with the three-fold purpose of exciting critical analysis, encouraging the use of scientific methods, and giving training in business procedure...
...PROHIBITION MANIA-Clarence Darrow & Victor S. Yarros-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Using the much-heralded dry arguments of Professor Irving Fisher of Yale (advanced in Prohibition at its Worst) as a tackling dummy, Authors Yarros (Chicago journalist) & Darrow (famed Chicago lawyer) endeavor to prove that the 18th amendment should be considered an outmoded though undeniably humorous fantasy. Practically all of Professor Fisher's conclusions, 38 of his charts connecting the dry law with the decrease in drunkenness and juvenile delinquency, the disappearance of disorderly houses, the reduction of deaths due to alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book...