Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's Sirovich, who is a doctor, mixed professional data with social theory, saying: ". . . In my humble opinion the greatest evil of this country today is overindulgence in every line of endeavor . . . drunkenness swinging the pendulum to one apex while Prohibition carries it to the heights of the other. Temperance, therefore, should be the avenue we should travel in approaching this great and momentous problem. . . . Shall we have our Government act as a Lucretia Borgia of medieval days, who poisoned all who came into intimate contact with her? . . . I am in favor of taking the Government...
...latter type are the Harvard Advertising Awards offered since 1923 by Edward W. Bok. The most highly coveted of these is the Gold Medal for Distinguished Contemporary Service, which was presented to James H. McGraw, in recognition of a lifetime spent in endeavor to raise the standards of American advertising. His speech of acceptance, it is worthy of note, dealt with the functions and economic values of the industry as well as its responsibilities...
...duty of the tennis athlete is the clearest of these. Football toil has watered his courts, whitened his base lines and paid for his southern trip; courtesy, as one athlete to another, demands that he fatten the scholastic average of football by his presence on the squad. Double endeavor would perhaps create havoc among the statisticians; but that is a phenomenon, like the changing intelligence of a three letter man, which is overlooked in the Foundation's computations...
...desire is not to oppose trapping or killing of animals, but I endeavor to prevent throughout the country the torturing of animals in steel traps...
...sufficiently adventurous spirts and virgorous nature to respond to the call of the admittedly difficult. The CRIMSON does not attempt to conceal the nature of its competitions because it wants only those men who are willing to undertake the hardest possible form of endeavor. Then there is a second and more practical reason. The CRIMSON candidate becomes immediately upon his election to the Board a full fledged editor. And as an editor he will often be faced with situations which require a large measure of prompt and vigorous action. He may find some afternoon in the late spring that...