Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harm. By its implications it has afforded good soil for the growth of the spoils system and the practice of rotation in office, two of the most noxious weeds in the garden of American politics. If all citizens are equaly competent to govern their fellow men, why should we endeavor to choose among them on the basis of their special qualifications? If all citizens are endowed with the same political capacity, why let any one stay in office very long? Our reluctance to make use of experts in any branch of public administration is in large measure a by-product...
Special attention is being given this fall to this part of the University football system as a part of the general endeavor to extend active participation in athletics to the rank and file of the students. For years class athletics have failed to arouse the interest or participa of very many students. Last year the class football schedules were uncertain, the squads very small, and the facilities scarcely adequate...
...Business School Club, thru its assists in forming policies of the school insofar as they effect students. Dean Donham and other officials of the Business School lock to the club as the mouthpiece of the students of the school and endeavor to carry out the desires of the students as far as possible...
...They are nearer than you are apt to imagine. It is a very safe protective rule to live today as if you were going to marry a pure woman within a month. That rule you will find a safe guard for worthy living. It is a good rule to endeavor hour by hour and week after week to learn to work hard. It is not well to take four minutes to do what you can accomplish in three. It is not well to take four years to do what you can accomplish in three. It is well to learn...
...Trial. U.S. District Attorney Emory P. Buckner, in presenting a summary of what the Government would endeavor to prove, first took up the second point. Said...