Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Rifle and Pistol Club, held at 27 Holyoke street last night, it was decided to affiliate with the National Rifle Association of America, and to endeavor to form a team to take part in the Intercollegiate Rifle Shoot to be held at Creedmore, New York, some time in June under the auspices of the Association. Each team will be composed of five men, who will each shoot two shots for sight and seven for record at ranges of 200, 300, and 500 yards...
...concession of the government, but it was too great an opening for the peasants. The peasants had been restrained all their lives by the government, and upon receiving the opportunity of freedom, as it may be called, they carried its privileges to a great excess. Now it is the endeavor of the government to get the peasant back to his original state, and let him out of his confinement by gradual stages, but the step which has been taken cannot now be retracted; the peasants will never relinquish the small claims to freedom which they have obtained...
...John A. Lomax, a member of the English faculty of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, and at present in the Harvard Graduate School, is engaged, with our hearty approval, in an endeavor to make a complete collection of the native ballads and songs of the South and the West. It has occurred to us that some students may be able either to send him copies of such ballads or songs, which they may chance to know, or to call his attention to people in various parts of the country, who could help him discover such material. We therefore request...
...Board, not as steps toward a more truly literary expression. The works show haste, carelessness, and a willingness to be content with a product far short of that of which they are capable. And may it not also be asked. do those who write about college life endeavor to see penetratingly before they write? We do not need to go far afield for models. Flandrau's "Harvard Episodes," although dealing, as he says, with but a small corner of a very big place, show a keenness of insight which the undergraduate writer, even though he may not attain quite...
...there is health and life and sport and friendship, stern endeavor, courage, endurance and noble purpose in all this, and with it all often the best scholarship, for the athlete is fitted for hard study. Mens sana in corpore sano. There are doubtless athletes who do little studying, but there are few students who take no regular exercise...