Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Senior class buttons are on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's today for 35 cents each. The design is by K. J. Conant '15, the winner of the competition held last spring. In order to accomplish the aim of the buttons, every member of the Class of 1915 is expected to purchase one as soon as possible...
...must in the nature of things be used mainly for students in the College, and is quite inadequate for the needs of men in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A moderate sum (say $5,000) would be sufficient to serve present needs of this sort, and would accomplish much more as a loan fund than if used for the endowment of a small scholarship...
There are over 400 men in all taking active part in social service work, and 200 more who take part occasionally, making a total of 600. The good which such a large number of men can accomplish later on as a result of the beginnings made at college can hardly be overestimated...
...distribution of the book throughout the schools and distant portions of the country where Harvard is at present hardly more than a name. For the booklet to fulfill the hopes of its publishers, it should be in the hands of the sub-Freshmen well before the June examinations. To accomplish this purpose enough money must be raised from the sale of a portion of the present edition to ensure the distribution of the remainder. Purchase of the books now on sale is not only worth while in itself, but only thus can the best results from this ambitious undertaking...
...style in description and conversation is light and the characters are cleverly sketched, although the close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing up their mysteries by means of a letter, and both lack vigor and compactness. Whatever the merits and demerits of the stories, however, the Advocate has been unwise in selecting three so similar. Had O. Henry himself written them we would be justified in asking a little...