Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Beginning tomorrow the Boylston street bridge will be closed for repairs for a period of about two weeks. Through arrangements made by Mr. Garcelon, the contractors will endeavor to keep a footbridge in use constantly, especially after 2 o'clock...
...Engineering Society, spoke of the growing importance of the annual meeting. Hon. J. J. Myers '69, trustee of the McKay fund, eulogized the donor of the fund for his breadth of character and his wonderful scientific knowledge. Mr. J. H. Jennings '77, a mining engineer, spoke of the endeavor to place engineering on a level with other professions and to require a broad education of engineers. He dwelt at length upon the untiring industry, the great versatility, and the great fund of information of the late Dean Shaler, under whom the Lawrence Scientific School attained great importance. Dean Shaler...
...convincingly. We may not all approve of the methods of reaching men and women adopted in revival meetings, and we may not even understand an appeal that finds its way to more demonstrative natures. But although we cannot grasp its full significance, we can surely sympathize with an endeavor which aims, as we believe Dr. Chapman's does, to bring about such practical results as the strengthening of the moral fibre and the fostering of a higher integrity in our civic governments...
...institution where scholarship has inadequate appreciation by undergraduates and almost no social incentive to encourage it, a society which has high scholarship for its ideal must recognize the importance of including scholars of character and ability along with the highest stand men. Some endeavor must be made to remove the opprobrium from scholarship which is all too prevalent and a continuation of such a policy by the Phi Beta Kappa will be of great assistance...
...evening it was decided to hold the first of the series of four class dinners in the Trophy Room of the Union Wednesday evening, January 20, at 6.30 o'clock. Invitations will be sent out to every fourth man in the alphabetical list of the class. The committee will endeavor to obtain some outside speaker to talk on a subject of timely interest to the class, and there will be music at the dinner...