Word: endeavoured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around here it is the custom to gloat for long paragraphs over the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Of all the major orchestras in the country, only this one has a great place in the hearts of the local populace; only this one is a center of aesthetic endeavour. But once it has been said that Koussevitzky's group is the finest symphony orchestra in the world, that...
...Lord God, when Thou givest to Thy. servants to endeavour any great matter, grant us also to know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same until it be thoroughly finished which yieldeth the true glory...
...beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much the setting forth of personal wanderings among a people of biblical interest as the ideal endeavour to continue the older tradition of Chaucer and Spenser, resisting to my power the decadence of the English language...
Instituted for the first time this fall, the Harvard Service Fund will endeavour to cover all charities, thus freeing students from the soliciting of many different organizations. In order to fulfill this work, as well as meet the demands of new charities, and increased war budgets, the Fund will ask this year for a contribution of seven dollars per student...
...past many students of design have taken courses in Government or Economics under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but the new department centralized under the control of Professor Gaus, will endeavour to tie all these subjects into the graduate courses of regional design. The student of planning can no longer be a mere theorist, he must now be trained in government and administration...