Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cotton states while the South maintained its ascendency in the Union. The third lecture will deal with the final struggle between the men of the lower South and the moral and economic forces which were gradually arrayed against slavery and the plantation system. Throughout the course the lecturer will endeavor first not so much to present new historical facts, as to make intelligible the mass of facts already known, and to exhibit the inside of a civilization usually discussed from the outside alone...
...coaching thus far has consisted mainly in an endeavor to remedy ragged blade work and to get the different crews as near a unit as possible. There have been encouraging signs of improvement among all the crews, but any marked advance toward finished work is hardly to be expected so early in the season. Donovan at the Weld and Vail at the Newell have done practically all the coaching, although the graduate coaches, Mr. J. J. Storrow '85, Mr. G. S. Mumford '87 and Mr. H. W. Keyes '87, will assist in coaching as soon as the launches are ready...
...person of her first officer among her alumni and her faithful adherents, and it is well and wise that she should begin to do so. She has had an example set her by the President of Harvard University, who has paid repeated visits to the West to endeavor to gain in the favor of the West the prestige of Yale as it stands today...
...teaching; the great principles upon which our national constitution is based, and in conformity to which administration should be carried on, will be vindicated and strengthened; that the fit relations between parties and government will be made plain, that the obligations of the moral law and of patriotic endeavor in party politics and all official life will be persuasively expounded; that the just relations between public opinion, party opinion and individual independence will be set forth; that an effective influence will be exerted for making public administration and legislation in the United States worthy of the character and intelligence...