Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbia, Cornell, the University, Johns Hopkins, Yale, M. I. T. and Pennsylvania, the president of the committee being Director Russell H. Chittenden of Yale. There has been hitherto no regular system of exchange of professors of engineering between France and this country, and the committee was set up to accomplish this purpose. Pro fessor Kennelly is its first out going representative...
That the Workshop should prove it is not entirely in the hands of experimenters in the vague, esoteric realms of ultramodernism, is nothing to be deplored. Far too often, organizations of this type progress beyond their public's ability to follow; and by so doing, lose the power to accomplish anything for the advancement of the stage. The Workshop, by putting on a play of everyday life, has done much to win the confidence of the every-day follower of the drama...
...communication in the Crimson on the subject of a Harvard Triangle Club, the desirability of having one, the objections to having one, and the means of having one, fails to accomplish more than to open the question for debate. The proposal seems to consist of the amalgamation of the best features of the Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta shows into one grand hilarious musical revue, which shall be representative of Harvard's best. But why stop Here? We might include the 47 Workshop--for a triangle certainluy needs a third side--to lend a sort of "high-brow" atmosphere...
...little reflection reveals the fallacy of the supposition that a mere pledge can accomplish any appreciable limitation of insidious propaganda by erring school teachers. Anyone who feels justified in accepting the protection of a government which he is surreptitiously attacking will be unscrupulous enough to take a "mere oath" and subsequently violate it. Furthermore any propaganda sufficiently biting to make an impression on the student mind would not be long in reaching the ears of the proper authority to deal with such individual cases. Finally, these betrayers of childish confidence exist for the most part only is the minds...
...subject on which the two schools often disagree," continued Mr. Lincoln, "is that of endings. The Realists are prone to think that good art requires them to end every story and play sadly or unpleasantly, and they are willing to twist circumstances in any way so as to accomplish their purpose. But they are somewhat narrow-minded in their point of view. For while they praise, as high art, the accidental killing of the hero at the end of a book that seems bound to turn out happily, they condemn the fortuitous death of a villain as catering...