Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endeavor is made to collect books, not for their rarity but for their usability. Books dealing with principles, such as Dunbar's "History of Banking" and Bragehot's "Lombard Street" are especially useful for they are applicable year after year. Standard textbooks on business, problem books by members of the Faculty, and similar publications are frequently added to the collection. The rapidity of business changes and the constant stream of new developments, however, soon make many of these volumes out of date for the inquirer who is making any intensive study of some phases of business...
This is the first time that the Secretary of the Committee on the Choice of Electives has arranged special hours for members of a Freshman class and is an endeavor to give Freshmen more direct aid in the choice of their courses than heretofore...
...misled by cries of "wolf, wolf" from Germany; nor let us think only of our material gain and possible loss; but let us endeavor to help Europe in such a way that no discord will arise in the allied camp In this we have failed so far, and if behooves us rather to prevent the impending disaster than to peacefully stay at home and prepare for it. Should Europe sink beneath the sea, would on first ery be. "What of our banks". J. D. LOPOS '25 February...
...Morgan then dealt with the theoretical element especially involving the make up of personality. He accepted the generally conceded fact that a man's character is moulded largely by his surroundings, but stressed the point that the remaining part must be developed by special conditions. "This is what we endeavor to do at Antioch", concluded Mr. Morgan, "by elements in the curriculum differing widely from those of other colleges. Liberalists make for training of intelligence almost exclusively, while technical institutions seek to develop the technical side, but what we wish to do is to devise a complete combination of personality...
...individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward the light of more serious endeavor! KEITH MACKAYR...