Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have one hundredth part of the difficulty with the Chamber of Deputies that I once had. We might possibly accomplish some things more easily under another form of government; but I am quite sure that we will be able to accomplish them, without too much difficulty, as a republic, and that we will be glad when it is over, that we remained one through...
...Young was back at 120 Broadway, behind his business-like desk, facing reporters. For a whole month he has refused to talk; but now he put words like pistol shots, with candor and precision. More was learned in five minutes about the new Committee and what it purposes to accomplish than correspondents have been able to guess in the last six months...
...most adequate proof of its success are still looming ominously ahead of weary undergraduates. Even if official reports again magnify the advantages of the Reading Period, as the CRIMSON has predicted, to those students who have found it imperative to spend long hours of each day in order to accomplish the prescribed work, mid-years present a more dangerous outlook...
...spirit of emulation, as President Lowell points out in his last annual report, should help to accomplish this--the desire of each "house" to achieve intellectual and athletic distinction in rivalry with its fellows. But this will not suffice, in our judgment, unless as soon as possible after the "houses" have been established and the first few allotments made the faculty allows the students themselves every reasonable freedom in choosing to which groups they will adhere. Nothing so strongly persuades a human being to "brighten the corner" where he is as the fact that he picked it. --New York Herald...
...that such criticism should arise. For an idealistic plan, such as Rhodes conceived, must appeal to the imagination of most people. But it will be difficult to find many who would agree on what the qualifications of the ideal Rhodes Scholar should be, and what the Rhodes Scholarships, should accomplish. Consequently, there is criticism...