Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Johnston, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, urging them to use their special abilities in case of war rather than enlist as a private. This leaflet will to some extent take the place of the census that has been taken in other colleges. It advises all men to endeavor to qualify as officers rather than enlist as privates. Men of special training are to use that training in case of war. The circular enumerated some of the branches in which expert knowledge will be required...
...Short Rations," Madeleine Z. Doty; "Pip," by Ian Hay; "America's Relations to the Great War," J. W. Burgess; the collected poems of James Elroy Flecker; "The Spirit of American Literature," J. A. Macy; "The Advance of the English Novel," W. L. Phelps; "Dante," C. H. Grandgent '83; "Lost Endeavor," by John Masefield; "A Popular Life of Martin Luther," Elsie Singmaster; "Health and Disease," R. I. Lee '02; "Abraham Lincoln," Lord Charnwood...
...recently been formed. Plans are under way for raising a fund to support the children of a town in Belgium. With this object in view, Henry H. Ketcham, captain of the Yale 1914 football team, laid the matter before a temporary committee of undergraduates and it was decided to endeavor to secure the promise of Yale students to support the four or five hundred children of some one Belgium town. When it is definitely settled what town it is to be, maps will be posted in Yale Station showing the exact location...
...armed neutrality. Our position is that "armed neutrality is a far more effective means of maintaining American rights than war." This is not an endorsement of armed neutrality as opposed to all other possible policies; neither is it a repudiation of our principles as previously stated. It is an endeavor to bring our platform up to date...
There seems to be no question that the sophomores are attacking a real evil. The club system, says the Daily Princetonian, has "limited fellowship in a way which is not only exceedingly harmful to the individual, but which also exercises a pernicious effect upon the university's endeavor to turn out undergraduates who shall be best fitted for positions of honor and responsibility in the nation." According to the resigning seniors the system has "discouraged individuality of thought," "created a set of artificial standards," and "diverted the finances, energy and attention of both graduates and undergraduates from the curriculum...