Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much might be said about the mob spirit, the cry of the pack, the psychology of crowds in general and in Harvard Square--but even journalists believe with Franklin that collective banging surpasses individual endeavor along that line. So it is with they utmost sincerity that the CRIMSON commends these students from beyond Central Square who wantoned in the evening hours of Thursday. Only by such little get-togethers can the calm, peaceful placidity of Harvard Square assume truly collegiate proportions...
...aids to progress. Every one of the matters which he has so ably and so sanely treated is the result of a narrow and one-sided educational scheme, having as its aim the compression of the individual into a conventional form and not, as is the new endeavor, into a spirit calculated to be both true to himself and the world in which he lives...
...wonderful achievement, not one word was uttered expressing thanks to God for His share in enabling so wonderful a performance. There was not one representative of the Church present, nor anything to denote that the British public or authorities recognize that without God's help every human endeavor would always come to nought...
...Main street of every village. Excellent men, lovers of poetry, they are in no sense creative--and can inspire scholarship alone--never creative art. Like their lesser brethren, the gentlemen of the Anderson, Masters like, they can not hope to effect anything in the particular variety of endeavor for which the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry was endowed. So in the choice of Gilbert Murray is revealed a precision and accuracy of judgment truly to be commended...
...President of the Association of Junior Leagues of America, busy wife of President Palmer of E. R. Squibb & Sons (drugs) : "In connection with the formal opening of our Association's national club and headquarters in Manhattan, I explained to newsgatherers that the Junior League represents the most serious endeavor ever made by women of leisure to share intelligently in the life of the community and that the steady growth of what might be called a youth movement, begun 25 years ago in one city (New York) has now spread its network over our entire country. Dues...