Word: striven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special knowledge in a given field or with the mental training which is the product of the best college education. Many institutions turn more and more to "practical" education, heeding the dislike of business men for the "unessentials." Against this tendency some of the larger universities have steadily striven, holding that it is for the graduate schools to concentrate on "vocational" training, and that for colleges the aim should be, as President Lowell phrases it, "something more than a preparation for earning a living...
There are tow main undertaking that give promise of securing this element of coordination, and those undertakings constitute the essence of the Antioch Plan. First, t all the specialized calling sin which men have striven for excellence, we are adding another--the profession of coordination. The professional course we give at Antioch all centre themselves in this--the development of ability to gather together the various tangled threads of forces, conditions, and affairs which make up the elements of any potential human accomplishment, and to weave them into a perfect fabric, showing the texture and design of a preconceived play...
...will continue his connection with the University as a professor of government. He has shown firmness and judgment in dealing with the problems that the Dean's office continually faces. Uppermost in his consideration has always been the best interests of the men in College and he has striven unceasingly to follow their wishes when that was feasible. Particularly is he remembered for the active part he took in the establishment of the Freshman dormitories...
...Advocate has always been in a difficult position. On the one hand it has striven desperately not to be "collegiate"; on the other it has faced the danger of becoming dry and academic. As Mr. Allen says--the Advocate has never been cheap. But in avoiding Scylla it has approached dangerously near Charybdis...
There is something sacred about a Christmas number which Lampy has been quick to perceive and he has striven to prepare a feast of humour at which Anthony Comstock would not have blushed to sit down. Occasionally a quip becomes recalcitrant and breaks loose, only to be swallowed up again by full page close-ups of the interior of the Lampoon building. But this is, after all, only what is to be expected in a Christmas number, and there are frequent flashes of decided Jevity, such as an unintentional likeness of Professor Rand performing on skiis, a clever whack...