Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have said on a great many occasions, our athletic program is built around the ideal that every boy who comes to Harvard is somebody's boy, and if we believe in athletic exercise then we should endeavor to provide it for every boy who wants it. Last fall we had five football games with Yale, this spring we are having eight crew races and four baseball games. In other words, we are extending to more students the privilege of meeting our rival, Yale. We have been able to accomplish this with the outdoor games because of the splendid facilities which...
...whether judged by its appeal to students, by the practical and professional value of its training as shown by the accomplishments and attitudes of its graduates, by the demand for its product by business men, by the contributions of its Faculty to an important area of human knowledge and endeavor, by the support which it has attracted from industry and from business men, or by its promise of further accomplishment in all these fields. It may fairly forget the early questioning as to its status in the University and devote its attention in the future to perfecting its methods...
...Committee has departed in a few points from policies honored by long usage. A few photographs of a type branded as "rotogravure" by a chairman of a former committee have been included in an endeavor to make the book an attractive volume as well as a mere record of events past...
...tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been invited to act as advertising disinfectants. Object of last week's attack, however, was not directly American Tobacco Co., but Merlin Aylesworth's National Broadcasting Co., nation-wide radio chain. Possibly despairing in their endeavor to convince the Lucky Strike makers of the evils of their course, the sugar & calorie forces turned their attention to the broadcasting company as an accessory in the tobacco crime...
...Open Letter also quotes many an anti-cigaret speech and editorial, including the previously cited Methodist Moral Bulletin. Said the Salt Lake City Deseret News: "Damage incalculable . . . dastardly campaign." Said Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, head of International Society of Christian Endeavor: "Womanhood is being exploited for trade...