Word: striven
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...badges of last year seem so idle now. But we may believe that before another spring has come again there will be some among those who now wear the unadorned service cap, that will be worthy of the cross of honor, and these, our young men who have striven so earnestly for success in athletics or managerships or papers, will be honored for the accomplishment of more unselfish service, and the fulfillment of deeds better done...
...striking commentary on the impartiality of Harvard men, which some sensational writers have striven in vain to assail, that two speakers holding such diverse opinions on great world events should speak under exactly the same conditions. With no show of boasting it may be said that the open-mindedness of the University's members is more than a word and a form. It is true in the sincerest spirit. All opinions that are sane and intelligent have here the same reception. They are judged on their merits...
...University, who laid all that they had upon the altar of honor? And would it not be both proper and just to give praise at the same time to the Harvard men who have served similarly, and who, though they are yet spared to this life, have striven and are striving for the same ideals of duty and courage...
...faculty of the Institute. In this agreement, Harvard and Technology make known to the world their belief in the combination of a practical and scientific training. As an educator of high school graduates and foreign students, Technology has always been in the front rank. Although it has also striven to benefit college graduates and all sorts of men, the combination of the two colleges will increase the cosmopolitanism and democracy of both. Technology's "research departments, splendidly equipped and splendidly endowed, will be used by men from all corners of the earth. It is an excellent thing for all work...
There are, however, certain ends towards which the Society has striven with success that can be more or less accurately measured. Year by year it has become more and more the satisfactory servant of Harvard students, as shown by its steadily increasing membership and volume of business. It has assumed all the aspect of a big business without losing effectiveness in its co-operative capacity. It has become as large, as all other college co-operatives together, at the same time serving as their model. And if the new office of Managing Director, filled by a man taken directly from...