Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard debaters will endeavor to prove that the campaign for Hawaiian statehood is being sponsored by the sugar interests of the island and that possibly the debate itself is a factor in that campaign. The main points of the argument whereby Hawaii will attempt to improve this contention have not been uncertained...
...this new policy to place our athletic program on the same basis as the other activities of the University which are largely supported by endowment. The President and Fellows have agreed that they will endeavor to build up during the coming years an endowment fund for athletics,--a capital fund, the income of which will eventually become the support of intercollegiate and intramural sports. Gifts for this fund will be welcomed and it is expected that each year the Corporation will be able to set aside some money towards this fund...
...administration of a great University must endeavor to find methods of counteracting the centrifugal forces which tend to separate our faculties into an ever-increasing number of subdivisions...
...recent appearance of doughnuts on breakfast menus may indicate that the Director of Athletics has interested himself in this latest intercollegiate competition. If this be the case the student body should endeavor to compete. Experience has shown that without dunking a doughnut is dry eating and may become lodged in the digestive tract. The recent remarkable reductions in time have been due to an improved technique of motion that brings the doughnut from the coffee cup to the mouth in the shortest possible arc. Let us forget our gastronomic niceties for a bit. If one of our number is successful...
...Especial emphasis was placed up on the Houses as educational units in an endeavor to assign as many men as possible to those places where they could work with tutors living in their respective Houses. . . . As a result of giving more attention to fields of concentration and tutorial quotas both on the part of the Central Committee and the Masters, the distribution was carried out in such a way that over 80 per cent of the men could be tutored in their respective Houses...