Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...overseers to Harvard College, or to make them state in advance how they will vote on subjects, petty or great, which they ought to be free to consider after election." In reply to this, we can only state that we hope that it is to be the custom to endeavor to gain some knowledge of the views of the men selected to represent the alumni, on the most important question of college discipline which can come before the governing body of the university. To assume that it is improper to question candidates on their views about important questions seems...
...University of Pennsylvania will endeavor to arrange a race with Harvard. Should her attempt fail, she will claim the championship...
...students wish themselves placed in the same position as before, only to sit passively by while the faculty act, they must bestir themselves. We should be happy to take notice of any feasible plan which anyone may wish to propose to the college through our columns and will endeavor to further any plaus which may suggest remedies for the present chaotic state into which the subject of faculty supervision seems to have fallen just at present...
...come forward with the right spirit. Captain Loud is an energetic man, but a captain can do little unless supported by his men. The entire working of the nine bears a marked contrast with that of preceding classes, and we should think that '87 would endeavor to supersede, or at any rate tie the good record made in base-ball by '86. Let us hope that in the few weeks that still remain before out-door practice begins, that all the ball players who have thus far kept themselves in seclusion will come forward and do all in their power...
...namely, the prohibition against playing with other than college associations. The Harvard delegate saw its disadvantage, but there was apparently no way to obviate it, as the very facilities which Harvard enjoyed, as for instance, its proximity to good, unobjectionable base-ball competitors had driven other colleges, in their endeavor to get even, to engage with the most pernicious form of professionalism, caused by their inability to find amateurs with whom to contend. Where there were so many interested it was impossible to make exceptions, and, consequently Harvard would ask for no special exception to permit of contests with Yale...