Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first place the politician of today must be practical. Academic learning, while it is an advantage, can never accomplish anything in itself. Secondly, in judging public servants citizens should remember that if they agree with a man on nine points, and disagree on one, they should support him, rather than vote for a colorless nonentity, without any record whatever. Mr. Roosevelt next advised his audience to read the history of the mistakes, as well as of the successes of our government, so that they will be able to help prevent their recurrence...
...that resulting from the semi-annual clothing and text-book collections. Educational and entertainment work deserve all the support than can be given them, but they are not effective unless the conditions, for the relief of which the clothing collection is undertaken, are bettered. In other words, education cannot accomplish its ends in the presence of actual physical, want...
...were accepted, would be the most logical body through which to make the necessary nominations. And next we are arraigned upon a quibble for inconsistency, a charge to which we are exposed by the very inconsistency of the new instrument itself, for while it proposes in its preamble to accomplish certain ends by "direct jurisdiction over individual students," no such powers are mentioned in the "Powers of the Council," nor are they granted in fact...
Feeling that the old Student Council did not fully represent the student body in the undergraduate activities and that it did not accomplish the purpose for which it was instituted, the Nominating Committee, with the help of President Lowell, Dean Wells and others, have worked out the following constitution for a new Council...
...Council was too small to be representative and yet too large to really accomplish anything of great importance, as it was impossible to assemble the twenty-one members at one time...