Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article is the first of a series to be written for the Crimson by W. W. Daly '14, Secretary for Student Employment, on the various fields of endeavor in business open to college graduates...
...considering business I want you to think just a moment of the field of human endeavor as a Graph with X and Y coordinates. The Y coordinates vertical represent different types of businesses with their various sub-divisions. The steel business, for example, is divided into smelting, mining, and refining, down to machine tool work, making structural shapes, and small metal parts. There are other businesses, smaller perhaps, with various types of products, but which are, nevertheless, separate as businesses...
...Close to the Coolidge heart is the endeavor of the Clarke School for the Deaf, where Grace Goodhue used to teach, to raise a $2,000,000 endowment (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week, some $400,000 was still unsubscribed. The President authorized the Goodspeed Book Shop of Boston to put on public sale copies of the Calvin Coolidge book plate, at $5 each, all proceeds to go to the Clarke fund. The book plate, a postcard-size woodcut by Timothy Cole, pictures the Plymouth, Vt., birthplace nestling among trees, two expectant white collies on the grass, a ready fishing pole...
...Thomas, the presidential candidate of the socialist party in the recent election, will endeavor to show that electric power is a public service and as such should be owned and operated by the government...
...educational idea, the idea that the University is an institution of learning rather than "A finishing school for young men." Ideally, there should be the discouragement of cliques and small social whirlpools of any sort within the separate "houses", while their whole purpose would be the encouragement of intellectual endeavor as small groups with common cultural interests. As the President of the CRIMSON describes the House plan, the group must "compete with the centrifugal attractions of final clubs, activities, varsity athletics, cars, girls, Boston and New York...