Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sociology are hopeful that a tete-a-tete with the striking longshoremen of Boston will prove an enlarging experience for all concerned. Following at the tail of this scheme comes the opening of a love clinic by the sociology department of Northwestern University. The head of the department will endeavor to light the way of unhappy lovers whose full moon has waned. In the cause of science he hopes to learn a trick or two himself...
...take some courses in which they have a paramount interest. The inevitable conflicting of classes must favor required subjects, at the expense of voluntary attendance at unlisted classes. In the same manner, electives are often too limited in scope and considerable trouble and red tape results from an endeavor to choose an elective under the jurisdiction of another college. In many cases, students graduate from college still harboring the desire to increase their knowledge of various topics which might have been irrelevant to their programs...
Magic-lantern shows, lectures, prayer-meetings and strawberry festivals, under the auspices of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, were prime young people's diversions 40 years ago. Cinema shows were lacking; social life, especially in small towns, was compactly organized. Practically everyone (except out-&-out renegades) went to mid-week C. E. meetings. The movement swept the nation; in 1895 there were 56,425 delegates to the Christian Endeavor convention in Boston...
...Francisco last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of C. E.'s founding went some 14,000 Christian Endeavorers. Fewer than at many a previous convention, they nevertheless represented an interdenominational organization grown impressively large: 4,000,000 members in 80,000 societies in 105 countries. If any one doubted its continued prestige Christian Endeavor had only to point to its kinetic, strapping president, Rev. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling; its trustee, President Paul Shoup of Southern Pacific Railroad Co.; its active member, President Herbert Hoover who spoke to the convention by radio...
Next most exciting thing to being addressed by the President of the U. S. was to have present during the convention small, motherly Mrs. Harriet Abbott ("Mother") Clark, widow of Rev. Francis Edward Clark who founded Christian Endeavor in Portland, Me. in 1881. Thrilled was she, she said, when President Hoover spoke of this "most enduring monument to the idealism, insight and organizing genius of its founder." Honorary vice president of the society, she listened eagerly at its meetings, let herself be photographed with William Quinn, Chief of San Francisco police. Burly Chief Quinn looked down at Mother Clark...