Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider the latter's resignation in order. Mr. Daugherty replied: "My elimination, voluntarily or otherwise, will be a confession of the truth of all these baseless charges of our adversaries, and will justify them in claiming that we have thereby admitted their truth, and such admission will accomplish the ultimate end and purpose most gratifying to such adversaries. I will never be a party to such a program...
...young John Wiley (who saw military training only in its earliest stages-his Freshman year) been to the War in any capacity whatsoever, he could never have written The Education of Peter, Yet, his is a fresher generation, a healthier generation, an unhurt generation - a generation that should accomplish much...
Perhaps this is not a true picture. Possibly it is an unfair one. But it is based on circumstantial evidence--the evidence of what recent Student Councils have failed to accomplish. And it not improbably approximates its picture in the minds of those whom the Council "represents"--in its own curious way. Yet the Council in, so acting would be merely fulfilling the University's expectations which have long since been shrivelled from lack of nourishment and even hope. For an impasse has been reached on rather a state of inertia, and there appears not even a Slayphus. Just...
...requirement in the Modern Language Examinations should be changed. The elementary examination should be either abolished or else a second reading examination substituted. And while no undergraduate could receive his degree before passing these requirements he should be given his full College term to accomplish this and should not be subject to disciplinary action on account of any failure connected with these requirements...
...moment only seven or ten men in the whole University who desired to have Senator Johnson elected President of the United States we should be highly pleased for it is from such beginnings that all great movements grow and ten men enthusiastically working to advance a cause can accomplish more than six thousand men who are content to give a movement their passing attentions. Happily there are already on the lists of membership of the Hiram W. Johnson for President Club more than a hundred names of Harvard University men than whom there are no more devoted men dedicated...