Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...success of the dinner and that the majority of the class co-operated with them, but it was not foreseen by them, or the class, that a party of fifteen who had arranged a table together, should arrive at the hotel in an intoxicated condition, and that they should endeavor to do everything possible to see that the dinner was not a success. Whatever rowdyism occurred was due to these fifteen, and it was necessary to finally bar them from the room...
...series of six lectures being given this season by Mr. Barr, one of which he will deliver this evening, represents several years of endeavor, accompanied by much hardship and great expense. He has just returned from a six months' trip in Labrador and North Newfoundland, where his work consisted largely of exploration, and where in the course of the summer he covered many hundred miles of seacoast and penetrated far into the interior using reindeer as pack animals. The expedition was mainly in search of young caribou, to be captured alive and brought to a post of the Deep...
...results. There is nothing, of course, to prevent anyone from laying out his work to suit himself, but experience proves that the majority of undergraduates are incapable of spreading it out judiciously, and leave everything until the last minute. Such an irregular method of work in any line of endeavor must necessarily prove unsatisfactory and inefficient...
Professor Adams of Dartmouth referred to Harvard as the mother of all colleges in that she has set a high standard of achievement which all endeavor to equal...
...Resolved, That the football rules committee of this association be instructed to use every possible endeavor to bring about such a modification of the rules as shall in their judgment tend to reduce to a minimum the dangers of physical injuries to the players and at the same time retain, so far as possible, the most desirable and wholesome features of the game...