Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This was the first lecture held under the auspices of the Ethical Society, recently formed to cultivate high ideals in college and professional life. The society will endeavor to do this by means of lectures by prominent speakers, followed by informal discussion among the members...
...that exists in some quarters, the professional courses show an increase in the number of their students in the current year (1904-05) and that the School as a whole "has always been, is now, and is intended to be, a place for steady work and the most strenuous endeavor on the part of both its teachers and its students." That this is not an empty claim is indicated further on in the report by the fact-that the average working time for the four-years' course in mining and metallurgy is fifty-two hours a week, or nearly nine...
...Garcelon, who closed the meeting, said that the very fact that Yale will have so large a number of track men back this year, while so few have returned to the University, gives an additional interest to our endeavor to win the dual meet in the spring. Never before, Mr. Garcelon said, had he seen so much good new material practicing for the team. He explained the importance of a large number of men entering the Boston Athletic Association meet for the experience that it affords, and especially urged new men to come out. At present the pole-vault...
...address Mr. Foster will give the results of an extended observation of the actual contact of the West with the East, and his views on the present opportunity for missionary endeavor, in the broad and modern sense...
...annexation of the Philippines. There are three solutions to the Philippine problem. First, we can fit the islanders for statehood and admit them to the Union. This, however, is scarcely feasible. Secondly, we can hold them as subjects without constitutional rights. In the third place, we can endeavor to set up a government on American principles and leave it to the people when they are fit for it. This the Republican party has taken for its policy; in the words of President Roosevelt. "The policy of the United States is to fit the Philippines for government after the fashion...