Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desire to place in the cornerstone some documents and publications that would paint an accurate picture of conditions today. . . . The committee deliberated and finally selected TIME as the one publication that would cover the entire field of human endeavor for the current week. So the cornerstone contains TIME, copies of the local newspapers, the Bible, the Constitution of the United States and a business directory of Modesto...
...fact that correction of abuses may tend to stabilize a business, or produce fairer price levels, does not mean that the abuses should go uncorrected or that co-operative endeavor to correct them necessarily constitutes an unreasonable restraint of trade...
...purpose of the present exhibition is to create an interest in undergraduate art, or to foster an interest already existent, the endeavor will meet with little success. Fine as the individual painting and drawing may be, the value of the exhibition to the student is diminished by the fact that a large majority of the works shown are the product of one or two brushes. To any visitor who looks at each new marking card with the hope of finding a familiar name, there is a decided monotony in the exhibition. Presumably not too serious an effort was made...
...left passes down from the rostrum the official advice about undergraduate activities; the right ventures to deliver to the rostrum undergraduate criticisms of the conduct of one part of the University or another. Several of the articles in the series on concentration seem ignorant of their proper role. They endeavor to hand on the freshman a representation of the fare which the University has to offer, and at the same time they use the sheaf handed them by the administration to slap one or another department. The CRIMSON'S role in this undertaking needs reorganization...
Perhaps a little less obvious is the failure to include a description of the prevailing intellectual atmosphere of the unit. Not entirely by accident, Lowell House has become largely a center for serious scholastic endeavor. There is an air of profundity hovering over the lamb and mint sauce, an air of correctness about the entertainments. One finds it difficult to fancy the prim and stainless chandeliers of that sunny dining room jangling to the raucous laughter of a "Shoemaker's Holiday." Men of Lowell find their pleasure in musicales and staid comedies...