Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over and soon afterwards came to have a fourth down on the Crimson 20-yard line. Actually, Eli coach Howle Odell sent Billy Booe into the game with instructions to try a run around end, feeling that his place-kicker was not capable of such a lengthy field goal endeavor. Something went amiss between the bench and the huddle and Yale got three unexpected points...
...group is an outgrowth of the Steering Committee of the Seminar, formed last September to supervise the project during the winter and spring organizational periods. Peirce, as chairman, will serve as assistant to Clemens Heller 1G, who heads the steering committee and is executive secretary of the overall Seminar endeavor...
...fundamental thinking behind the endeavor holds that vast general issues in education can be solved only through factual research: "the frontier of the imponderable retreats as knowledge of the tangible expands...
Today Aydelotte's recently-appointed successor, atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, heads up an endeavor equipped with its own comfortable $8,000,000 building, the gift of founders Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld of Newark department-store millions. Professional chambers range from twice to four times the dimensions of those enjoyed at most wealthy universities. Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Paleograplier Elias Avery Lowe won additional windows to help him avert eyestrain while deciphering ancient texts. It was not like this under the tenure of first director Abraham Flexner...
Although the new magazine has not been entirely successful in its endeavor, it makes entertaining reading that is at least free from the adolescent eccentricities of Radditudes. The forum, consisting of a few letters on the extent of political consciousness around here, does not come through with any concrete ideas; but a short article on the state of modern drama, the subject of next month's forum, is provocative as well as clearly written. The other non-literary feature, two letters from German students, does well in keeping the general "for students and by students" flavor of the magazine...