Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institutions offer the best possible opportunity for such study. In addition, the Carnegie Foundation has now provided a substantial backing for the work, which has been organized into a special department of the University--the School of Public Health. This practical innovation is welcome not only because it can accomplish an enormous amount of immediate good: it indicates at the same time that the University in yet another field will be in close contact with the needs of the world of affairs...
...their ways, while the French did not understand the press and its possibilities. Mr. Abbott's article restores our previous optimism. France is not insincere and she does not intend to block progress. She has made an unfortunate mistake by misunderstanding the environment that has done much to accomplish things in Washington; let us not make an even more unfortunate mistake by misunderstanding France and her motives...
...movie can accomplish such wonders in an evil way, its potentialities for virtue must be equal. It is undeniably the most direct means of appealing to the people, throughout the country. Professor Baker has been quoted as saying that if he could be given absolute control of the moving-picture industry and its out-let for three years, he could raise the country's intelligence ten percent, and its morals in proportion. Whether he is right or not would depend on his method of atback. Obviously, if the movie lost its interest and became purely a moralizing agent, it would...
...every respect pitifully inadequate. Chemistry is a subject of huge and growing importance. Harvard has a chemical staff of unusual distinction, but their work both in teaching and research is so hampered by the limitations of Boylston Hall that one wonders how they have been able to accomplish what they have...
...midnight, reeling, liquor-addicted Harvard students attract notoriety to the college which defeated the Blue on the 26th. Shall such doings be suffered to continue in this character-building institution, this "fair Harvard"? Obtaining synthetic gin is no longer so difficult and clever a feat that those who accomplish it need show to the outside world how enlivening an effect gin has. No longer is it a truly remarkable achievement to get enough wine for boisterous merriment. Drunkard ness among students, while pitiable, is not a condition which is altered by weeping or preaching. As long as the attitude...