Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...action of those in charge of singing at the football games as indicated in the communication printed elsewhere in this issue seems singularly calculated to attain the end desired. Musical composition like all other forms of artistic endeavor does not flourish under competitive stimulus with a set occasion for its object. We may want new songs, but it is doubtful if they can best be obtained in the old way. On the other hand we realize that no amount of enthusiasm on the part of the students singing a song can contribute anywhere nearly as much toward the perfection...
...Pierian Sodality opens this week its hundred and sixth season of musical activity. Its constant endeavor has been to encourage undergraduate interest in the appreciation of good orchestral music and to provide opportunity for the practical expression of such appreciation. In so doing it occupies an unique position. While controlled entirely by undergraduates, it has proved itself a valuable asset to the Music Department, supplementing in a practical way the theoretical instruction given by the musical faculty. It is by no means necessary, however, that members of the orchestra be students in theoretical music...
...report on the Social Service work done by Harvard men in the past year shows that the University still leads in the number of men engaged in this branch of collegiate endeavor. In general the nature of the work done has been the same as in former years. There has, however, been more differentiation and diversification making it possible to reach more differentiation and diversification making it possible to reach more remote conditions than when all the workers were massed on one or two problems. More intimate study of particular phases and situations has been the result: Especially significant...
...have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor, with which future historians of music may one day regard the antics of the post-Wagnerians in their feverish straining after originality...
...studies. In concentration lies the secret of success and for concentration genuine intellectual interest amounting to enthusiasm is requisite. The versatile man who is attracted by everything, in an American college, runs a perilous risk of becoming a social dilletante, a high-grade inefficient. It has been the constant endeavor of President Lowell to restore to things intellectual their proper importance in undergraduate opinion and to prevent the dissipation of inherent intellectual ability...