Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more deeply, than to occidentals, upon whom the accidents of history first imprinted His message. His appeal for orientals differs in that they feel the native mysticism in His unruffled character, the contemplative idea of thought rather than His energy, His practical humanism. This theory makes logical the endeavor to Christianize the Orient. Also, it makes it apparent that Dr. Jones loves and understands the natives of India as well as he loves and understands Christ. It explains his refusal of the high post to which he had been elected. The Methodists did not choose another bishop in his place...
Perhaps I am not one to criticize-being merely a 16-year-old Andover student, but even my young mind can see utter folly, and endeavor to help. I read TIME consistently, both while at home and at school...
While it cannot be said that the Harvard undergraduate has only now discovered scholarship, it is undeniable that the stimulus to intellectual endeavor is greater than it probably has ever been before. The falling off in extra-curricular activity is a natural concomitant. The undergraduate publication stands upon the judgement of its own creators...
...modern university is a miniature of the modern world, embracing every endeavor found elsewhere on a larger scale. The students of a university are players taking part in a dummy scrimmage. They are going through the motions, and in doing so they may plan to meet emergencies which may never come. They can make mistakes which would be fatal in a larger sphere of life but which, after they are made, may be stored up as profit for the future. Knowledge gained from observation and from the acquisition of facts may be illumined by imagination that comes from speculation...
...intercollegiate contests of a purely academic nature was twofold: to foster general interest in scholarship, and to enable the student to demonstrate his loyalty to his college through scholastic attainments. Desire to gain a place among the college's intellectual representatives might well stimulate the average undergraduate to scholastic endeavor, but it would scarcely serve as an added incentive to do well on the examination itself to any but the ten picked men if their names were announced before the event. Under the present Harvard plan, however, at least every student who stands high in the English Department will feel...