Word: striven
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Salvation Army, was accepted by Mrs. Fiske, several months ago. The leading part, taken by Mrs. Fiske, is that of a drudge in a saloon on the Bowery, upon which, on Christmas night, the curtain rises. As usual in her mounting of a play, Mrs. Fiske has striven to make setting and action atmospheric...
...operative Society is conducted solely for the benefit of the University constituency and its officers have constantly striven to keep the general level of prices in all departments as low as the canons of sound business will permit. While the store does the larger part of its business on a cash basis arrangements are made whereby any member may open an account upon terms which will be explained at the Superintendent's office. The growth and success of the Society's operations have been due in the main to a genuine desire to accommodate its members in every reasonable manner...
...several years men have dreamed of and striven for such a plan, and thus have laid the foundation for it. Two Harvard professors especially have given it much thought and labour, and a large committee of students, with the help of other teachers and graduates, have threshed out the constitution and selected the books. When the building was set on foot, three graduates at once asked to furnish the house. Mr. James H. Hyde of '98 has given us the library-both fittings and books. Mr. Francis L. Higginson of '63, and Mr. Augustus Hemenway of '75, old and proved...