Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, however, has provided at least one unique attempt at the solution of the difficulties belonging to the great office of president. This endeavor is to be credited to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The institute, which has had great presidents, has, in choosing a new president, Compton, asked the retiring president, Stratton, to become chairman of the executive committee and of the corporation. This chairmanship has its analogy in a method of the control of banks and other great corporations. The division of duties and of rights between these two offices has not yet been made; but all interested...
...specific suggestion was the creation of an international noncoercive business tribunal, the conception of which he said arose in the minds of men who, working on the War Industries Board, saw U. S. industry combined "in effective cooperative endeavor" in order "to work out a vast problem for the common good." That this would be remote from all governmental or political agencies he stressed, saying, "Bit by bit we have almost completely bartered away our birthright of economic freedom because industry, unable to solve its own problems, has left no alternative to an appeal to government...
...wide experience wisely in denouncing many of the antiguated traditions of college organization. The additional merits of eagerness and idealism, which lift this work from the ranks of prosaic scholarship to those of sincere, sound criticism, mark. "The Awakening College" as a pioneer in the field of future educational endeavor...
...praiseworthy step on the part of Paul Block, owner of several newspapers, and a master in the art of advertising, to endow courses for lectures in journalism at Yale. President Angell, outlining the instruction, to be given there, has said that they "will endeavor to interpret the press in its-relation to the political, economic and broad cultural development of the country; they will not be directed toward vocational journalism...
...keeping at Cornell professors who will, by the force of their personalities and scholarship, inculcate in their students a real semblance of the sort of learning that is being neglected, more and more, now that the chief business seems to be preparing undergraduates for highly specialized fields of endeavor...