Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fair price for extra tickets. Gentlemen would hesitate to speculate in tickets to a private reception, and the committee trusts that the same delicacy will be felt in disposing of tickets to the class day exercises. And we trust that the other classes will support '82 in the endeavor to make the day truly a class day, as by so doing they contribute towards making their own class days more enjoyable...
...make some comments upon the howl of the Harvard advertising sheets as to Yale's wit, of which they claim our Wednesday number is the professed exponent. Evidently their disciplined memories do not recall what we declared to be our object at the outset. We said that we should endeavor to furnish pieces of a light and entertaining nature. They persist in looking for 'funny' articles - 'side-splitters' is their other euphonious name for it." The News adds that it is content to let the matter rest where it is, "for to our taste - depraved probably - light sketches...
...fall, at the same time as the entrance examinations. Your suggestion is so sensible, and open to so few objections, that I hardly think it necessary to add anything to the arguments advanced in your editorial. But I would ask you to urge the proposed change, and endeavor to arouse the other college papers to a perception of the good that must arise from such a measure. Owing to a large amount of regular work, men are often compelled to defer the removal of conditions until the senior year, at which time, if a failure occurs, the unfortunate person...
...hope that the members of the class of '82 will recognize the amount of work which falls upon the class secretary and will endeavor to lighten this part of it at least...
...beyond criticism. Theme writing cannot, of course, be dispensed with, but to improve as much as possible the various styles of the students, we think a greater range in subjects should be given, and that one rather impracticable should not be adopted as a criterion. The style which we endeavor to imitate is no doubt beautiful and good for some subjects, but the fact that we are obliged to write according to the judgment of a single individual tends to destroy all originality. If originality is of value anywhere it should be in this particular course...