Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that some boys won't awaken to their responsibilities and do what they can do to measure up to the best that is in them. About all one can hope for in such cases is that some day such boys will realize how foolish they have been and strive to do better...
...their third successive Sunday regatta, the Crimson sailors will strive for Quad honors (Harvard, M.I.T., Dartmouth, and Brown) on May 21. From June 20-22 they will defend their championship laurels won last year in the MacMillan Cup Regatta at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island...
After the original deluge of student interest had been organized into well-charted panel discussions, the next day saw the whole conference reconvened in the new debutanted Littauer auditorium where there followed a tidal wave of voluble riot and disorganized debate. In vain did the group mentality strive to find the fruits of its previous well-ordered labor mirrored in the stormy session that questioned deficit finance, public spending, and even the protagonists' intentions. Roberts' rules were not enough to resist the tide of debate. Two chairmen substituted for each other as arbitrary Noah's Arks, and yet the debate...
...repeat to you this evening, my American friends, that France will never yield to either the menace of force or the blackmail of guile? . . . For us peace and liberty are inseparable boons. We [the U. S., France] do not need to be bound by texts, nor by pledges, to strive together for what we believe to be the good of humanity. We do not need to make contracts with each other...
Beasting only one outstanding swimmer. Captain Paul Williams, a mediocre Pennsylvania team will strive to upset Harvard in the Crimson's first Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League meet, tonight...