Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preferring to be alone, the United States has been shown at Locarno that Europe accepts our isolation and can accomplish at least constructive intentions without us. There were not even American observers at the conference, although its inception may have been due somewhat to Ambassador Houghton's influence. Compared with its state in the last five years, Europe is now united, if only to an infinitesimal extent. Conscious of this fact, the European nations see themselves collectively regaining the headship of world affairs which has slipped from their grasp; and they feel stronger for coping with the great standoffish creditor...
...purpose of the Deutscher Verein is to afford members of the University an opportunity for discussing modern German activities, literary, political, and artistic. In order to accomplish this end, prominent German authorities will address the club, after which an informal discussion among members will be in order...
...Church exercising only a slight shadow of its former influence over the lives of men. This situation requires that Universities readjust themselves to the needs of the times and accept the full burden of that which formerly fell upon them only in part--of preparing men to live. To accomplish this readjustment at Harvard the best thought of the best minds, must be devoted to a careful study of the problem. If the students, through their official spokesmen, the Student Council, can aid by presenting their point of view, that body should meet the issue by appointing a capable group...
...better assistance a section man (this year there will be two) was provided, and entrusted with the all too difficult task of tying up the loose ends which the eminent professors were forced to leave. To bring order out of such chaos was more than one man could accomplish last year and promises to be more than two men can do this year. Another course, English 41, attempts to review the entire subject of the history of English literature and is said to succeed where this course fails by substituting continuity for diversity and breadth of range...
...beginning of his Freshman year every college student, if he be of the true breeds, burns with enthusiasm and determination to accomplish great things. He is entering upon the last stage of his preparation to begin life on his own account. His plans are vague, but full of hope. The present is his immediate jewel. Four golden years confront him--years embellished in his imagination with the gilt and tinsel trappings gleaned from books on college life. And out of the brightness of the vision emerges a youth in cap and gown, a hale of glory about his head...