Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volunteers reported to Esty Foster '19, assistant dean of the School of Business Administration, and Edmund M. Morgan '02, Bussey Professor of Law, who transferred the names to the headquarters in Boston. The men will canvass all the business offices of the down-town district and each will endeavor to get ten pledges...
...interest, sometimes lack of knowledge prevent Freshman advisers from performing any but a purely mechanical function. The problem is first to get advisers thoroughly acquainted with the individuality of each advisee, and second to get them to use that knowledge to guide every Freshman into the field of endeavor most suited to his interests and abilities. With over a thousand men entering in each class this is no small matter, and can probably never be fully accomplished; but it can unquestionably be more nearly approximated than it is at present...
Back Bay or Bulltown, W. Va. "Harvard must endeavor to draw to its staff the most able investigators and teachers in the world. . . . What they accomplish and those whom they inspire will be the measure of our success...
...conduct the interesting experiment of establishing in one area of this country (for example, in a portion of the Middle West) half a dozen thousand-dollar scholarships for entering Freshmen. A combination of school record, recommendations, special examinations, and personal interviews by competent judges should be tried in the endeavor to make a satisfactory choice...
Harvard must endeavor to draw to its staff the most able investigators and teachers of the world. We have today a faculty of which we may be justly proud but we cannot ignore the fact that it is increasingly difficult to attract from other universities and research institutes the outstanding men whom we desire. I need not stress the necessity of our having at Harvard great scholars and investigators. Our ultimate contribution to society will depend on their scholarly output and their stimulating teaching. What they accomplish and those whom they inspire will be the measure of our success...