Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this time the Museum was in a shanty and stuffed with more than it could hold. In spite of Agassiz's immense labors in connection with the Museum, which was handicapped by lack of space, lack of funds and lack of helpers, he managed to accomplish no end of original work in zo-ology...
...William James, I remember when I was in College, pointed out to me how many young men there were who never succeeded in accomplishing anything. He said, "Ability is very well, but many men of ability fall by the wayside and never reach any particular goal for lack of enterprise, lack of industry, lack of those things which we sum up under the general heading of force of character. And William James was in the habit of saying to his classes, and elsewhere, that any man who would devote his whole strength for a sufficient number of years to mastering...
...accomplish results in the world by knowing how to do it, and, therefore, it is that we speak with more confidence to educated men, for it is the educated man to whom we look forward to solve all the problems that we have...
...distinction because they do not choose to devote the necessary amount of time to study. Of course there are exceptions; many men indulge in extensive intellectual work outside of their courses. But considering men whose interests are normally distributed, and measuring their efficiency by the amount of work they accomplish in an allotted time, the superiority of the best scholars is evidently due in most cases to superior inherent, intellectual ability...
...committee, which will set to work in the near future, intends to accomplish a threefold purpose: first, to write to prospective students during the summer and to establish at least a preliminary relation between strange Freshmen and men familiar with the University; second, to work at the information bureau early next year, in order to help the new men; and, third, to participate in the "fall canvass," interesting undergraduates in the work of Phillips Brooks House and the Christian Association...