Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having lingered over the May issue of the Advocate, the though comes that it is genuine, full of good literary endeavor and free from affectation. To find the subject matter bounded by the good taste that begins with simplicity and ends with an observance of the precept of Horace...
...subject matter itself. A short story is a flash, a glance--nothing more; picturing a bit of life, a short series of incidents, of the effect of events upon the participants. Considering this, the committee has in its general selection been extremely happy. No one field of human endeavor has the more ponderous, more "literary" type prevailed entirely. One thought alone seems to have guided the choices; the interesting and accurate presentation of life. Young men's carefree interoperations of existence, old men's reminiscences, athletic narratives, tales of animal life have all been included...
...type of thinking rather than for the indorsement of specific programs. That doubtless accounts for the attacks of some of the radicals at the Convention and for subsequent fulminations of certain reactionaries. It is the immediate purpose of the League to foster liberal college groups which shall endeavor to inform themselves on problems of the day by calling in the Goliaths from all camps each to champion his special cause...
...colleges do not exist for the purpose of allowing political parties to carry on propaganda for adherents to their ranks--which is the ultimate objective of the so-called 'Liberals' and the latest camouflages adopted by this branch of Socialist endeavor...
...season four weeks away, Coach Haines has decided to continue experimentation with the University crew until the best combination of oarsmen has been obtained. In this he is following the policy of Coach Spaeth of Princeton who has been shifting his men almost daily of late in an endeavor to secure the best possibilities from his exceptionally good material...