Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start of the second world war, degrees-awarded figures, starting with the 33 given out in 1910, had cumulated to a total of 7,757. During the war, however, the School cut out all degree awarding, choosing rather to lend its full experience to the war effort...
Right now Chase and his three assistants are rehearing a squad of 30 three of four times a week at the Arena an Boston Skating Club in an effort to fill the holes left by such graduated standouts as Dave Key, Tom Moseley, and Dick Grecley. The first game comes up Saturday with M.I.T., and the coaches have a fair idea of who will take the ice. But there isn't any starting lineup...
Unity has already been proved possible, Dr. Douglass points out. "In 1925, the United Church of Canada was formed. Joining in this mutual effort were the Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and the Local Union of Churches in Western Canada. The United Church of South India was formed, bringing together Episcopalians, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and members of the Reformed Church...
...Haitian primitives had some extraordinary subject matter to draw on-tropical market places, voodoo rites and deities, scenes from the black nation's bloody history. But the most effective pictures in last week's show were those that made no effort to be beautiful and that sacrificed the esoteric for the immediate. Préfète Dufaut's childlike Harbor at Jacmel was as flat, bright and familiar as any postcard, and Wilson Bigaud's self-portrait behind bars had the harshness of a flashbulb photo. Even these, standouts though they were, lacked most...
Your story and editorial comment on the Student Council's plan to investigate the effect of a Harvard education on the "whole man" interested me greatly. This investigation, as you observed, will probably be a worthwhile undertaking. Perhaps it will materialize into an extension of the admirable effort which the General Education Committee's report began. But I hope I am not being unduly skeptical if I suggest that the nature of the inquiry will limit the findings to a very broad outline, and that this outline is already visible. It is really not necessary to launch an elaborate four...