Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern enterprises-they are too big. In board meeting I don't sit at the head of the table. I sit anywhere. . . . Money? What is there to it? ... After man's material wants are satisfied all that remains to the making of money is the power to accomplish something for the common good...
...last getting the situation under control," said Mr. Connolly, "something we have been trying to accomplish ever since prohibition was supposed to come into force. Great difficulty has been encountered in stopping the sale of liquor outside of the Yard, but this arrest will prove a lesson to other bootleggers, and we can now proceed toward wiping out the practice throughout the college dormitories. We are watching other suspicious individuals, and more arrests will follow unless liquor venders take warning, and realize the futility of soliciting business about Harvard...
...This they expect to accomplish during the administration of Mayor Nichols, who is a loyal son of Harvard, and heartily in favor of Harvard football...
...tutorial meeting has certain unique qualities. It can accomplish what is impossible either to lectures on to ordinary conferences. The necessity of "speaking down" from the platform limits the possibilities of the lecturer, the tutor cannot go beyond what little he himself within a short space of time can tell each single man who comes to him. In a tutorial meeting there can be the informality, the spontaneity, the free discussion which a classroom lacks without the hampering, mechanical restrictions of an ordinary conference. the speaker who directs the meeting,--perhaps he is a different individual each time, the present...
...educational authorities, and there is a clamor in some quarters to curb the sport and place it on a rational basis. The subject is receiving considerable attention at Harvard University, and the daily paper of that college has even suggested that the professional game will do much to accomplish this...