Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requirements. There is an alternate scheme which would beyond question fulfill them. By endowing a number of international scholarships, named for the dead, Harvard would not only satisfy the requirements of the non-church as well as the churchman; she would honor her fallen in a noble and useful endeavor toward training men in the international point of view, in broad sympathies and understanding, so that the lives of young men might not again be sacrificed on the battlefield...
...Horn. If they can be made to appreciate the importance of intellectual training they will take it seriously enough. The only way to make young men feel the importance is to accept and act upon the principle that they are partners, and the more important partners, in the educational endeavor. This we have not done. We have confused instruction with education. We have not seen clearly that nobody can educate anybody else. The faculty can only direct and supervise and maintain the standard; the student must educate himself...
...Charles Dewey Hilles of Manhattan, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, set forth on a month's tour of the South, Middle West and Far West. He will endeavor to find out what other Republican bigwigs think of a third term for President Coolidge. He does not know, he says, whether the President intends to be a candidate...
Emphasizing the fact that inexperienced oarsmen would be given every opportunity, Coach Brown said that all through the season he would endeavor to keep his eye on the class crews even after the vacation. A. L. Hobson '24 will be again in charge of the class crews, which he assisted with last fall. C. S. Heard '25 will coach the 150 pound crew...
...Greeley died. On Nov. 5 Ulysses S. Grant "won 286 electoral votes to Greeley's 66. On Nov. 7, the Tribune announced: "The undersigned resumes the editorship of the Tribune, which he relinquished on embarking on another line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be his endeavor to make this a thoroughly independent journal, treating all parties and political movements with judicial fairness and candor, but counting the favor and deprecating the wrath of no one." But immediately there was a move to oust him from control. "My misfortunes do not come 'single files, but in battalions...