Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attract great attention from the undergraduates that are not actually engaged in the work. This is unfortunate and is largely so because it is not members of the University with whom those engaged in charity work are most nearly concerned. The efforts of students in this direction do, however, accomplish great good in Cambridge and various parts of Boston. Such work cannot fail, moreover, to have its effect in augmenting the dignity and favor which the University commands among people who can do much to annoy and disturb the undergraduates at all hours of the day and night...
Among the numerous non-social clubs in Cambridge, there has been in the past a decided need for some organization which can bring co-ordination into their various activities, and prevent the misunderstandings which are sure to arise between societies of similar interests. To accomplish this the Council of Federated Clubs has been established, and with foresighted and impartial administration it can be effective and useful in undergraduate affairs...
Finally, they will not accomplish their end, as they will not encourage our merchant marine. They will foster great monopolies which will not give us enough more ships to be rightly called encouragement. Altogether, the net result of such a subsidy would be to raise freight rates, and not to encourage our merchant marine...
...Gill, who made the third speech for Harvard, said that the affirmative merely offset the causes for the decline of our merchant marine by governmental aid; the negative wants to remove these causes entirely. A removal of the protective tariff would accomplish this by lowering not only wages but the cost of construction and operation. This would give us an American merchant fleet, not by an enormous expenditure on subsidization but by putting the shipping industry on a sound business basis. A removal of the tariff would give us a naval reserve, for it would cause the withdrawal...
...highly important that all possible candidates turn up, for it is in the early practice that the captain and coaches form their opinion of the ability of the various men. Besides, the new rules must be tried out and put to actual test if we expect to accomplish anything under them. Withington said also, that he expected to hold meetings twice a week to discuss the rules and proposed plays and that these would be compulsory...