Word: strove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private tutor and as the head of an unusually successful tutorial school he strove always at the delicate task of supplementing college training, not undermining it. Whatever we may think of the system that he developed, it was always clear to those who knew him best that he worked from the highest motives and sought to give help of a kind that reflected an unusual ideal in teaching. Friendly and generous in all his relations his passing will mark a real loss in college life." GEORGE HOWARD PARKER '87. Professor of Zoology...
...Manhattan?the East-West Players in The Little Stone House, by George Calderon. They of White Plains who put their trust in The Crow's Nest, by William Manly. And the Garden Players of Forest Hills in Robert Courtney's The Clock. These were the victors three, where all strove with honor...
...material which the student of today must master before he can be said to have made a beginning in even one branch of twentieth century learning. With the coming of the Renaissance men's minds were stimulated and enlivened by a multitude of new emotions and discoveries. The student strove for omniscience no less than the artist or the man of letters. Leonardo da Vinci was, in his day, as great a scientist and engineeer as he was a painter. In the field of science, however, his work has been superseded, while his painting still lives; so we are prone...
...raid that cookie jar. And you were a good, honest boy, too. Yet every time you saw that cookie jar you tasted its contents in imagination. No one will ever know how manfully your will power fought against your imagination, no one but yourself can realize how heroically you strove to be all your mother had convinced you ought to be. Yet, in the end, you got a cookie and a whipping...
...defeated Germany. (Though it is fair to add that this statement was made after the war.) And there have been many men to whom an amicable peace between England and Ireland has seemed the "summum bonum". To Cromwell after the Irish had rejected (strange to say) the ideas he strove so eloquently to impress on them, it seemed that they were but devils and irreconcilable papists, and that it was his painful but obvious duty to crush them. Yet he was puzzled. So was William before Londonderry--and after. So have been many others, but always down the centuries will...