Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joint endeavor of Harvard and the Boston Public Library in establishing the greatest business library the world has ever known in the new school at Cambridge which Mr. Baker has made possible is of double significance. By this joining forces with the collegians the city of Boston has demonstrated a friendly appreciation of what the university can do for her business interests and a spirit of cooperation in a very practical case that will work for the advancement of both...
...examinations based upon this course. The examiner needs no further evidence of fitness beyond the school record as tested by written examinations and confirmed by the confidential report of principal or headmaster. The boy is the father of the man, in college as well as in other fields of endeavor. He should be encouraged to prove his preparedness for college by work in regular course rather than by summer tutoring, for there is serious question of whether a few weeks of hurried summer study better equips a boy for college work...
...Western Conference has adopted what the Michigan Daily terms a "rigid code of ethics" on the recruiting of high school athletes. The provisions in brief condemn "scholarships, loans, and remissions of tuition of the basis of athletic skill," the endeavor of athletic directors and coaches "by initiation of correspondence, by distribution of literature, and by personal interviews of their own seeking to recruit athletics," and the previous promise of employment to prospective athletes "by the athletic department of the university...
...Hamlen, as the Club executive of the Harvard Fund, was closely in touch with Mr. Hallowell and with his plans, and will endeavor to carry them...
...most of the fraternities are in favor of rejecting the requirement, which may result in the abandoning of some of the usual functions next month. This action of the Williams faculty is undoubtedly motivated by a conscientious desire to remove an existing evil. But no matter how earnest its endeavor, the faculty can never accomplish its purpose without the cooperation of the students themselves. A pledge of the sort required can do little good by itself. Those sincere enough to refuse such a promise will lose their party, but drinking will not be decreased. Those who accept it without compliance...