Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard is having a new deal in athletics in an endeavor to save money and it has been necessary to place part of the sports on an informal basis. At present polo, rugby, yachting, skiing, rifle, and golf are in this position which means that they are provided with university facilities as much as possible and the H. A. A. contributes a small sum for coaching expense, but the burden of equipment and transportation falls upon the shoulders of the participants
Many of the student cases involve claims of less than $50. The members of the staff endeavor to make a settlement but, if litigation is necessary, the client is referred to the Small Claims courts which are held in Massachusetts by every district court and which do not require the services of an attorney. The Court...
...clause pointed out by Mr. Van Ness is in these terms: 'I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr.' To endeavor to discover the meaning of this declaration, I was obliged to seek in the antecedent part of the letter for the opinion to which it referred ... I found it in these words: 'General Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of Government...
Christian Endeavor is 54 years old. It now has 4,000,000 members throughout the world, representing 90 Protestant sects. If cinema and radio have cut into its oldtime following, it nevertheless still commands the loyalty of a sizeable slice of U. S. youth. Christian Endeavorers attend weekly devotional and inspirational meetings, do welfare work such as packing bags for soldiers & sailors at Christmas. Philadelphia barkeepers misjudged Christian Endeavor from the beginning last week when they put out placards WELCOME C.E. Many a C.E. delegate walked by such bars wearing a pasteboard badge, WE DRINK MILK. NOT BEER. And Convention...
...Grosvenor, 19, bummed rides from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was robbed of his last $10 in Pennsylvania, pushed on penniless. A boy from Buffalo pedaled wearily to Philadelphia on a bicycle, arriving three days late. Most delegates from out-of-town arrived by automobile, were put up by local Christian Endeavorers. They arose at 7 a. m., gathered in Convention Hall for an early "Quiet Hour" of Scriptural reading. Eager and uncritical, they absorbed thin-spread ideas from speakers on marriage, peace, evangelism, social justice, politics. They yielded to the energetic, well-scrubbed personality of Christian Endeavor's world president...