Word: endeavorment
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Although the wealth of musical talents creates an environment of activity and creativity, some students feel the university and the Music Department do not do enough to foster performance and musical endeavor. All of the performance activities are organized by students, and some feel they would appreciate greater university involvement. Ishan Bhabha ’04, a member of BachSoc, said “The university doesn’t provide enough of a forum for chamber music...
...rule followed by religious Muslims to forswear food on a Thursday. Before dawn that day last November, he sat before his mother to recite the chapter of the Koran his teacher had assigned him to memorize. "If two parties of the believers contend with one another, do ye endeavor to compose the matter between them," he recited, rocking back and forth as an aid to memory. Abdullah stumbled, and Wafa Franji, a teacher of the Koran herself, told him, "It's a little weak, Abdullah." The boy kissed her on the cheek. "This afternoon I'll recite...
...hospitals have provided initial funding of $50 million and lend their huge patient bases and banks of genetic information to the endeavor...
...women finally are nearing equality in yet another area of social endeavor--the hotly contested field of binge drinking. Mullah Omar must be smirking in his safe house as he reads the Harvard School of Public Health study showing that college women are now drinking as fast and barfing as hard as the guys. It's exactly what the Taliban would have predicted: that alcohol abuse blends perfectly with women's liberation...
...students have a bizarre obsession with things like “success” and being “good at stuff.” The phrase “I have so much free time” is about as rare as a smallpox epidemic. We could endeavor to delve into the psyche of these students, but why bother? Let us just accept that some of our peers will forever strive beyond excellence, even if that means forgoing sanity, moderation and real happiness. If you are one of those people, you need not read on. If you have always...