Word: endeavorment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the 14-year administration of handsome, pince-nezzed President Charles Ezra Beury (pronounced Berry), a former lawyer-banker, Temple has labored mightily to become a dignified grove of learning. In this endeavor, President Beury has had the pushing assistance of Dr. William N. Parkinson, dean of the university's school of medicine, and the collaboration of a collection of 36 extraordinary trustees. Last week the board of trustees blew up with a loud, unscholarly report...
...continue to have an essentially free and classless this country, we must proceed from the premise that there are no educational privileges. We must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety of educational channels leading towards different walks to life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of education disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above the other...
President Conant believes that "we must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety for educational channels leading towards different walks in life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of educational disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above another...
That a university should endeavor to assist the government in its stupendous task of preparing our national defences--moral as well as material--is highly desirable. But universities cannot remain true to their own ideals if they are to judge men's fitness to remain on the faculties not by the excellence of their scholarship, but by whether their views on questions of national policy coincide with those of government officials or university administrators. Our universities are strongholds of American freedom. If we fail to preserve freedom within academic walls, we shall fail to preserve it in the country...
Local authority-and local self-support-is the aim of all sound missionary endeavor. At the International Missionary Council at Madras in 1938, churchmen of all nations hailed the coming-of-age of native Christian leadership in Asia. But once a missionary district becomes independent, it is exposed to enemies from without and within. In Japan that independence came gradually after World War I, was paralleled by a growing hostility to Christianity in Japanese officialdom. Since churchmen and mission boards outside Japan made no conspicuous effort to stiffen Japanese Christians' backbone, concessions to nationalism became inevitable...