Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another of their very dangerous and dogmatic policies is their endeavor to drive out from the schools all teaching and references to the theory of evolution. In five states they have had bills brought up before the legislature, ostracizing this biological principle from all schools. One state has already passed such a measure...
Opportunity for questioning the speaker is offered at the end of every address, so that members of the audience may have doubtful points explained. Questions may also be written out and handed in before the lecture, and the speaker will endeavor to answer them in the course of his address...
After this talk a discussion was held, in which members of the club asked the speaker various questions, and discussed various subjects. This is one of the main ideas of the Forum; an endeavor to get at the truth through open and fairminded discussion...
This is the first action that has been taken in an endeavor to keep the streets open for traffic. In former years no such action was deemed necessary, but this year there is a startling increase in the number of cars owned by students and there is no more parking room than there was last year. With 500 more cars in the University this year than last the problem is becoming an acute one. However the University has no power over any but its own property, and so the duty of clearing the public highway will fall on the police...
...Amherst team, according to reports, has been practicing daily in an endeavor to repeat its achievement of last year when it downed the University team...