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...endeavor to raise the Phillips Brooks House to a firmer financial standing, we have come to depend on our thousand volunteers and our 12,000 PBH alumnae first. However, Harvard's assistance in this effort has been essential every step of the way. Van L. Truong '89 President, PBHA
When Arizona State Representative Jim Green visited his son's junior high class in Tucson last year, he offered a civics lesson in the form of a challenge: if the students could find something "unfair" in the state constitution, Green would endeavor to have it changed. Little did he imagine that the young sleuths would track down a startling inequity. As 100 students pointed out last week in an appearance before an Arizona house committee, the document states that only a "male person" may occupy the offices of Governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general or superintendent of public instruction...
...Council also debated the merits of broadcasting the meetings of the Cambridge Rent Control Board and the Board of Zoning Appeals on cable television, but postponed action until they could determine the details of such an endeavor and the cost to the city...
...wears a stovepipe hat that makes him look like a character out of Dickens, keeps a flame burning constantly under his 20-gal. pots of rice, soup and beans. The New York City kitchen, which serves as many as 1,000 meals a day, is not his first such endeavor. Beacon, who calls himself the Fire Tender, says he has set up similar "temples" in other cities across the country...
LITERATURE is after all just "a field of endeavor," not at all different from the business world or the journalistic world. Very few people ever read poetry, while a whole lot of people drive cars, ergo General Motors is a more important "field of endeavor" than literature...