Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...neglect of the physical welfare of the mass of students, and sounds a warning against the evils of commercialism. Perhaps the least enthusiastic portion of the report is this discussion of undergraduate athletics, which, though optimistic in tone, shows clearly the desire for a better adjustment of collegiate endeavor...
...college life, and our problem concerns its readjustment. In the solution it is obvious that the various activities of some two-thousand men cannot be reduced to one pursuit, scholarship, but it seems possible that a closer connection may be set up between college courses and other undergraduate endeavor. If such a connection be possible, academic work will share in the attention devoted to the "outside activities", and a step will be taken toward the solution of our most pressing problem...
...Stearns '01 was the last Regent, holding office until his duties were taken over in the year 1910-11 by the then acting Dean Wells. The revival of the position of Regent has been due to the accumulation of work upon the Dean's office and to an endeavor to develop the office of proctor into one of closer relationship with those undergraduates with whom the proctor should come in contact...
...Alumni Civic Service Committee will make a complete canvass of the Senior class at the coming election in an endeavor to discover what members of the graduating class are willing to undertake some sort of social work in the communities in which they will live. Blanks will be placed in the Lodge at the class of '77 Gate on Wednesday, December 11, with questions as to what city the alumnus will live in and what kind of work, if any, he will be willing to undertake...
...American universities. So the devotion of any undergraduate to the cause of scholarship does not in itself signify that he is a narrow-minded, parasitic, and incapable being. Furthermore, it is claimed that the undergraduate scholars work solely for grades and that they are not truly interested in scholarly endeavor. Such a contention is not true. Of course marks stand as an index of proficiency in scholarship, and naturally if a man is striving to attain a high standard, he will ipso facto receive high grades. But the high grades are not the sole aim and object of his work...