Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...missed what many of us considered a golden opportunity in the fulfilling of her obligations as our oldest University. The drama was one of the first of the arts; the culture and erudition of all ages had contributed to her glories. Mr. Baker had worked for years to accomplish in this field what Harvard has been able to do in so many of the liberal arts, and give to the teaching of play-writing and the allied branches of the theatre the needed university sanction and background. Not only were the cramped quarters of Massachusetts Hall and the inappropriate Agassiz...
...nearly 18 years Harvard University has grown and prospered under your presidency. You brought to your high office ripe experience of public service, of teaching, of scholarship, and above all a clear vision of what this University may accomplish in leading its students to love learning, and the wisdom to discern the way. Under your leadership, scholarly attainment has become more attractive to young men here than ever before; and every part of the University has profited thereby. From the College now go each year into our graduate schools large groups of young men who have already distinguished themselves...
...desire to return to his law practice in .Chicago. At 44, Mr. Winston is one of the oldest of the many young men whom Secretary Mellon had lifted into important positions in the Treasury Department. Suave, diplomatic, he was often seen about town in Washington and was able to accomplish important errands for his reticent chief in Continental capitals. His most distinguished achievement was helping Secretary Mellon arrange the debt-funding agreements...
...Georges Claude would drop a long pipe to the ocean deep and pump up cold water to condense his turbine steam. A totally different method of using tidal energy is to "harness" the powerful ebb-and-flow movement of the tides. Three important projects are already under way to accomplish this-at Passamoquody Bay (see p. 31) inlet of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; at Sudbury on the Severn, Eng. .and at Aber-Vrach on the Brittany coast. At all three places there are long, narrow estuaries, into which tides rush with enormous energy. Water turbines, set in dams...
...that the Wets can possibly accomplish is laxity of enforcement or nullification...