Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howe, accompanied by Coaches William Haines and E. J. Brown '96, and for a part of the afternoon by Captain Appleton, coached the crews, all of which rowed upstream. The men were instructed to row at any easy stroke in an endeavor to have them become accustomed to the unfamiliar work on the river without sacrificing any of the form which has been stressed in the indoor work. None of the crews rowed far, the work being limited for the most part to the stretch of river between Newell Boat-house and the half-mile straightaway upstream...
...University. The last edition of the University songs has been out of print for some time, and not for many years has there been a low priced collection on sale. The Glee Club is issuing the new book as close to the estimated cost as possible in an endeavor to place it within the reach of every student...
...that members of the faculty use the same old text year after year, whether it suits their purpose or not, for some changes would be decidedly welcome at any time: we merely suggest that they would be doing us a distinct favor if they would endeavor to avoid undue fickleness in their choice of books for class work. --Michigan Daily
...these days when the limitation of everything from petticoats to armaments is all the rage, the earnest reformer must soon be looking about him for new fields of endeavor. There is, in the estimation of many, too much of most everything in this world; how to eliminate some of it is consequently a pertinent question. Unfortunately, authorities will disagree as to what should be thus disposed of. Some would eliminate all government, others, all taxes; down in New Jersey they are trying to limit the limitations imposed by the nineteenth amendment. Still others confine their efforts to the suppression...
...standardized requirements for admission, as well as for graduation tend to put the stamp of uniformity upon the college course as whole. While for the undergraduate, routine work, routine attendance, and routine examinations heighten this general tendency. All these factors have had a restraining effect upon independent intellectual endeavor. The stimulus to such effort is deadened by the continual pressure of every-day requirements. Then, too, many professors have slipped into the habit of assuming only a routine interest on the part of their pupils. Such a habit naturally leads them to confine themselves merely to the most conventional remarks...