Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clean sweep" in the Yale race a week later is not only one of the greatest victories in the history of Harvard athletics, but is a feat unprecedented in the annals of cross-country running. Sure of its strength but not over-confident, the team which will today endeavor to wrest from Cornell the title which she has held ever since the Intercollegiate Cross-Country Run was inaugurated, is the strongest which has ever represented Harvard...
...Federation of the territorial clubs at Harvard marks the emergence of the territorial movement from its first phase of isolated efforts by individual clubs into a new one of united endeavor which is designed to bring the entire country into closer touch with Harvard. The project is not yet fully outlined but is evidently capable of great possiblities. The fundamental idea of bringing the clubs together is an excellent one, and the Federation should be a great influence in making the efficient clubs more efficient and in stimulating the backward ones to more serious efforts. The possibilities of the territorial...
...University. Plans will be discussed for a permanent organization of an efficient character. It is not so much the desire of the Progressive managers to have a very large organization as to have active men who are ready and willing to give what time they can spare in earnest endeavor to help the party. Assurances of support from the office of the Progressive National Executive Committee in New York have already been received...
...first and second places in the track events, while field day badges were presented to the grammar school pupils whose teams won their events. All the regular prizes were awarded by the Cambridge school department. The special medals were given by a number of Cambridge citizens in an endeavor to encourage gymnastics and athletics generally among the school children of Cambridge...
...Council recommends that a system of regular hour examinations at frequent intervals be substituted, the mid-year and final examinations being counted much less than at present in making up the grades in a course. Under such a system regular study would take the place of irregular and uncertain endeavor; more regularity in work would lessen the evils of professional tutoring; and the man who for any good reason did poorly in his final test could not claim that any injustice had been done, for marks would be based upon work done throughout a course. Under such a system there...