Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Graduates of the University are well aware of this fact. Not only has a Harvard man been chosen to head the emergency committee on Employment for Soldiers and Sailors, but the Alumni Association has taken definite steps to seek positions for Harvard men. Every endeavor should be made to further this work as it is the sort most appreciated by the men themselves...
...recent agitation in favor of more mass athletics for the undergraduates may have stimulated some of the professors and instructors to take a greater interest in the athletic endeavor of the students and to wish to see for themselves how the present systems of sport are being conducted...
...Davison is abundantly able to set before the class the value of the Jubilee as a musical endeavor. A foreign critic after a brief tour through this country reported to his audience that the Americans were birds of beautiful plumage but without song. However figurative this remark may be, its literal interpretation is not without truth...
...Head", I failed to find anything in the publication to stir either the intellect or the emotions. There was considerable attempt at originality both in the stories and the poems, which left only the desire to refer the authors to Professor Babbitt's essay on that phase of literary endeavor. One of the stories was interesting only because it was about Russia; the other a clumsy attempt at whimsicality mingled with a certain amount of unredeemed lubricity. The poems suffer in comparison with the work of Hillyer and Damon. The one essay contained much obvious truth, but seemed over weighted...
...much so -- and I present this as a thought, merely -- that when we adopt for the athletic field a system of endeavor less serious in its demands and less exalted in its obligations are we not operating to defeat the primary purposes of essential university work as already set forth? In other words, does not a boy, whether he be a Varsity man or a member of a class or whatever team, receive moral and physical benefit from any game in which he may play in proportion as he is taught and inspired to play that game to the limit...