Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calverton is primarily a polemic and, like many of his kind, he stretches and overstates his facts to make his case more, plausible, thereby losing what over strength there may be in his argument. In "The Liberation of American Literature" he makes a rapid survey of literary endeavor in this country before the twentieth century, and with few exceptions brands it all as bourgeois and "un-American." It does not occur to him that, even if this, were true, the middle-class is after all sufficiently numerous to deserve literary expression, and the Unites States of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
Nona (by Gladys Unger; Peggy Fears, producer) is predominantly a feminine endeavor. Written and produced by able ladies, it is carried entirely on the wide, writhing shoulders of a very lively lady, Lenore Ulric...
Describing the policy Yale intends to follow in respect to the new proposals, Mr. Farmer states as follows: "As to the matter of coaching: It is hoped that suitable non-paid coaches for house teams may be found. For university teams we shall endeavor to have the best men we can secure. We want coaches who will instruct the boys in the best there is in sport, giving them every opportunity to develop and to come in contact with those experiences and situations which occur in competitions with teams of other universities, and which are lacking in intra-College competition...
...through." Said he: "There are two ways in which increased preference can be given?either by lowering barriers among ourselves or by raising them against others. The choice between these two must be governed largely by local considerations. But subject to that, it seems to us that we should endeavor to follow the first rather than the second course. . . . Let us, therefore, aim at the lowering rather than the raising of barriers if we cannot fully achieve our purpose now, and let us remember that any action we take here is bound to have its reactions elsewhere...
...Professor of Political Economy, has been awarded the Asa V. Call Alumni Achievement trophy of the University of Southern California, according to announcement by President R. B. Von Kleinschmidt of that institution. This award is presented to the alumus who, by reason of his achievement in some field of endeavor during the past year, reflects the greatest credit on the university...