Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important point about his famous transformation of the Glee Club is that he did not accomplish it by dictating repertoire or purging those who opposed him. "Doc," as he soon came to be called, felt college men were intelligent enough to have good judgement but had taste plastic enough to be molded. He first improved the quality of the Club's singing, and then persuaded them to try some classical pieces in rehearsal. The first, Mendelssohn's The Huntsman's Farewell, appealed to them so strongly that they agreed to sing it in St. Louis in 1915 before a surprised...
...United States is to accomplish a feat like the Soviet rocket shot at Venus, the government must display a sense of urgency in space research comparable to the emphasis put on development of military weapons," Arthur E. Lilley, associate professor of Astronomy, declared...
What had Galváo hoped to accomplish by his seizure of the Santa Maria? In his own orotund phrasing, he declared: "We desired to prove, and we did prove, that Dictator Salazar is not invulnerable. We beat him and we ridiculed him-him and his navy-before the entire free and Christian world. Tomorrow, when and wherever we face him, we will beat him once more." What Galváo proposed for Portugal was "land for those who work it and a house for those who live in it. We will liquidate large landed estates as we will liquidate...
...there was a disagreeable odor somewhere in the library. The Dining Halls Committee saved the total of one serving lady's salary in each House by turning the coffee urns around for self service and by instituting milk machines. If it received publicity, this work would be harder to accomplish and would appear ludicrous. Still, it is the sort of thing that Council membership involves and the kind of complaint that students would rarely pursue on their...
...dispute the assertion that universal suffrage would heighten interest in Council--assuming the candidates would not be the beneficiaries of free local T.V. time. It is the members of the Council who would bear the bulk of its work and accomplish the task of rendering it a more useful body. Interest expended on a college-wide popularity contest could better be channeled into the members' elections conducted in the Houses and freshman class...