Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems absolutely necessary to me that the faculty should fully understand the position taken by the students in regard to the matter of the new athletic regulations, and as the college papers have as yet failed to present that position as I conceive it to be, I shall endeavor to express what appears to me to be the student feeling. If I am mistaken in my interpretation of that sentiment, I do not doubt that I will soon be corrected through your columns. In the first place, I should like to have it understood that we do not question...
...Cyrus Hamlin, the author of several of the numerous tracts that have been distributed among the students by various New York "protection" associations has been delivering a lecture which is remarkable for its originality. Dr. Hamlin's idea is that each nation should endeavor to confine its trade as much as possible to its own limits. "That nation," says he, "is surpassing all others in the accumulation of wealth that has the largest volume of home commerce and industries." According to the Times newspaper of New York, Middlebury College, of which Dr. Hamlin is president, "will before very long...
...service if occasion arises. These young ladies, it says, after vainly entreating Chief Shaw to form them into a fire company, have voted that he is a mean old thing, and have organized a fire company closely modeled upon those to which men belong. "That the Girton girls should endeavor to fit themselves to put out their own fires is, of course, laudable. Although there is no danger that Girton College will be set on fire by careless smokers, it is still always possible that a student absorbed in midnight study may accidentally set fire to her front hair...
...recognized by our faculty; for within two years the courses of study here in the academy have been materially advanced and so arranged that in the senior year there is now quite a margin for optionals. Our faculty are not accustomed to do anything without mature deliberation, yet endeavor to be always abreast of the times; and to our mind these changes have been made largely in the interest of the Harvard element, or in pursuance of the Harvard spirit. They certainly are not in accordance with the traditional Yale policy...
...walking about and thus preventing his limbs from becoming stiff with the cold. It is all very well for a proctor to walk up and down and criticise the action of men who turn up their coat-collars, but let the proctor sit down for a few hours and endeavor to hold a pen in his benumbed fingers, and I think he would soon view the matter in a different light...