Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon in her dressing room between the acts of "First Love", the French importation in which she is now starring at the Plymouth. "The theatre and the modern play are in quite as good standing as the novel of today and other fields of artistic endeavor...
...simple . . . that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived." 3) "It is unnecessary for a prince to have . . . good qualities . . . but it is very necessary [for him] to appear to have them. ... A prince ought, above all things, always to endeavor in every action to gain for himself the reputation of being a great and remarkable man." 4) "It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat...
...severe critic, but he was just. He was the outstanding exponent of freedom as contrasted with hampering restrictions in all educational endeavor. His wholehearted devotion to the service of education--a service which he deliberately chose early in life was conspicuously evident throughout his career; and for nearly fifty years he was the most influential educational leader in America...
...forceful initiative and convincing advocacy the improvement of medical and legal education in the United States is largely due. These notable contribution to education by no means exhaust the list of his services; indeed, by virtue of his leadership in many fields of social and civic endeavor, he may be confidently acclaimed our first citizen, as he is properly acclaimed our most able and successful educator...
...content to be a mere spectator of educational endeavor. He was a persistent student of education, and he participated actively in many educational organizations--local, regional, and national. He accordingly obtained a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of educational needs and of contemporary aims and practices; and on that knowledge were based his just criticisms and constructive suggestions. At a time when the study of education as an important subject of university study was regarded with suspicion by the majority of academic faculties in leading American universities, he had the vision and the courage to establish the study of education...