Word: strives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell has spoken of self-education as the ideal toward which teaching itself should strive, but the Reading Period is in itself such a determined step in that direction that it is questionable whether the student should be completely deprived of tutorial guidance. The possibilities for research and creative work in the time thus made available to the tutor are without doubt great, and honor would be presumed, on the basis of past accomplishment, to be won during them for the University. But if the tutorial system is to continue serving alike the dropped Freshman and the first group...
...alien smugglers. Commented the New York World: "Perhaps, then, in wattle huts and thatched roofs, in crowded slums and picturesque villages of the old familiar parts of the world, they still think of this [U. S.] as the promised land. Hearing their stories, we can hardly do less than strive to make it that...
...benefit by the technical knowledge and public esteem won for the Profession by the Engineers who labored in the past, we shall ever strive to augment that heritage before passing it on to the Engineers who are to follow...
...conviction that I should not strive for the nomination, and my obligations as Secretary of Commerce preclude me from making any personal campaign. I must rely wholly upon my friends in Ohio to conduct it, and to conduct it in a fair manner and with steadfast regard for Republican success in the state and the nation. It is my special desire that expenditure of money shall be strictly limited and rigidly accounted...
...people if one is to believe mystery playwrights. They gleefully eviscerate the noblest hero and burn the baby's eyeballs with a chuckle. An untruthful tribe as well, they are only exceeded in creating lies and tortures by the strange race of men who make up plays of mystery. Strive as one must to minimize their truthless horrors, one cannot escape, herein at least, their power...