Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surrender the University into the prying, meddling hands of an ever changing legislature is in effect what Mr. Blanchard and his associates would accomplish. The fear that a University administration will make itself subservient to big business interests is not one whit as terrifying as the thought that the machinations of logrolling of a typical legislative body can finally be made to control the destinies of Harvard...
...likely that the Massachusetts legislature can change the intellectual calibre of Harvard. What it can accomplish is a revision of the system of administration, in so far as it may find true culture to be suffering from commercial oppression. But the real investigation of policy should originate from within. The legislature has the legal force, whereas the moral suasive power rests with the vast body of Harvard men. Harvard undoubtedly needs business men to administer its finances: If those men tend to stifle liberal education the administration of policy should be placed in other hands - the hands...
Other times, other criteria. The tests devised by Professors Abbott and Trabue cannot measure or even indicate intuitive poetic discrimination, which is something indefinable and intangible. The most they can accomplish is to determine whether or not the person being examined is sufficiently intelligent to assimilate what has been told him in the lecture room. A good memory is a very different thing from a sense of poetic values...
Much of the illusion and of the beauty of the performance depends on the settings which have been admirably designed by G. H. Humphreys. They are simple without being bald, and they assist in giving the feeling of the time without being at all obtrusive. To accomplish this is not so easy as it sounds. The costuming is also appropriate and effective, and there is frequently great beauty of general stage effect. This is according to Dramatic Club tradition, but we have perhaps come to take it too much for granted...
...lose, but to lose without giving one's all to win, is the only cause for ever feeling stigma in defeat. Captain Greenough and his team mates, therefore, may look back on the game with no feeling of self-accusation in being unable to accomplish the impossible. They gave their utmost--even more--and it is not their fault that it was not enough. There is no dishonor in defeat at the hands of a superior opponent...