Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largely because they feel it would eliminate dilettantism. Because biochemistry majors are required to take only five concentration courses, including physics, many students never get beyond the elementary stages in this field. As a result, these undergraduates never receive the real benefit of concentration--discipline in a certain academic endeavor...
Added Bronk: "In the spirit of research we will endeavor to preserve a flexible educational pattern and an adventurous environment for our students. We agree with Abraham Flexner, the great educator . . . 'As a democracy needs intellectual distinction, it would be fatal to exhibit too timorous a spirit...
...segregated game, and neither necessary nor compulsory. All Southern cities report two things: 1) that the number of Negro players is uniformly very small, and 2) that there have been no incidents . . . We believe we will have the support of the great majority of our people as we endeavor to meet this new situation with the same calmness and levelheadedness which many of our sister cities of the South have already shown...
Like any other teaching endeavor, the new tutorial plan will succeed only if its subject matter is valuable and interesting. In this case the students and their instructor will have complete freedom to choose their own field of study, and the diversity of the Kirkland residents who have joined the program--representing all Rank Groups and many varieties of scientific interest--augurs well for a non-specialized curriculum that will effectively complement the regular science courses. The science tutorial should not become simply another Natural Sciences course, just as it should probably avoid the suggested possibility of investigating various vocational...
...just waiting for the letters to roar in from unthinking Roman Catholics who will endeavor to point out that because we left the word "Protestant" in the legal title of the Episcopal Church, we have therefore given up the claim to Catholicity. I only hope that some day, in the providence of God, these people will realize that "Protestant" and "Catholic," when used correctly, are not contradictory, but complementary. The opposite of "Catholic" is "Roman...