Word: strives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Stevens will be the principal speaker. He will define the position which he feels the crew should have in its relation to the University. He hopes to dispel the prevailing impression that crew is a closed sport, destined only for those who are socially prominent. He will strive especially this year to secure the close cooperation of graduates and students with Captain Kelley's crew, and to stimulating rowing as a sport in Cambridge...
...policy announced by the Yale News in the editorial reprinted below is one which will meet with hearty sympathy at Harvard. It clearly recognizes that freedom and the ideal of a liberal education are the goals toward which the students of the Eastern universities must strive. It is far from radical; ardent reformers will criticize it for that reason. It does, however, offer a sound liberal program whose merit lies in the fact that it can--and ought--to be carried...
...nine weeks, brought in its first findings. In doing so, it laid down the program which it affects to follow. It said, first, that there are a number of good reports on agricultural conditions and that it is not necessary to make more elaborate ones. Instead it will strive to submit concrete recommendations...
...trekked across Africa afoot, thinking what he would do with himself, when the expansive, fertile beauty of the unexplored country he was passing through gave him an answer. He would, after studying at Oxford University, strive to make the English race governors of air Africa, of all the world...
...Wendell under the stress of athletic defeat. "Yale was founded half a century after Harvard," he used to say, "to counteract our radical influence. She has been after us ever since, until now she has taken to winning." Nevertheless, the tribe of Harvard men and of Wendells continued to strive for victory, and the chances are that hereafter the dramatic muse will be even more assiduously wooed...