Word: endeavorment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Dorgan, legislative agent of the City of Boston, who is leading the fight here against Russell, has not established his right to interfere in the Corporation's appointment. Achieving this, he must go on to prove that Russell will violate a Massachusetts general law holding that "Harvard should endeavor to impress on the minds . . . of the youth permitted in its care . . . the principles of chastity and those other virtues which are the ornaments of human society...
...totalitarianism? What is the real nature of the forces of disintegration that are at work today? How do they function? Is it possible to render them powerless by opposing them with forces of integration? If so, how? The nature of the threatening conditions must be investigated and the endeavor must be made to find means by which they can be rendered harmless...
...certain that such an endeavor will lead to success. The problem may be so vast or so intricate that it resists our attempts to solve it. This does not release us from our obligation to deal with it to the best of our ability. Even if we do not reach tangible results, much is gained if we merely discover the reason why a problem is incapable of solution for the time being...
...candidate for U. S. Senator from New Jersey, presented to the crowd the Honorable James H. R. Cromwell, coyly smiling. Said Mr. Cromwell (who hates to have his wife, Doris Duke, referred to as "the richest girl in the world"): "I stand with President Roosevelt in his ceaseless endeavor to find ... a better way of life for the great masses of our people." Next month he will resign his job as U. S. Minister to Canada...
Dorgan is conceded by legal experts to have a strong case as far as the morals phase of the controversy goes. He has cited a section of the General Laws of Massachusetts as his authority for asking cancellation of Russell's appointment. This section demands that Harvard College endeavor to "impress on the minds . . . of the youth permitted in its care . . . the principles of chastity and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society...