Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems as if additional credit should be given to the man who endeavors to follow the instructions and accomplish that really difficult task of being brief...
...stirring up trouble intentionally. Headlines can always be written to read two ways, a report can be garbled, and emphasis can be put on the wrong phrase. The result,--the product of exaggeration and misrepresentation.--will furnish sporting columns with gossip for a fortnight, but it is unlikely to accomplish anything else. The cry of "Wolf! Wolf!" has been raised too often. The relations between Harvard. Princeton, and Yale are too firmly established to lead any one of them to jump at newspaper alarums...
What the Ship Subsidy Bill is designed to accomplish is the building up of American steamship lines flying the American flag and employing American officers and men to the end that these all-American lines may be the servants of the American people and of the American people first and foremost. Men and women who have for years voted for a protective tariff on farm products and manufactured goods are today doubtful as to whether they should support a plan for the protection of the American shipping industry when upon its protection at this time depends the future...
...that now they are more impressive than ever. The new change inaugurated yesterday marks a revolution. The teachings of the Quakers have received support. Hereafter no one will be required to officiate, but each student will quietly meditate, and wait for the moving of the spirit. In order to accomplish this revolution, a few more changes are necessary. Abolish the boy choir, do away with ringing of the bell, strip the Chapel of its decorations, and finally remove the compulsory feature, and allow the Quaker-like spirit of devotion to manifest itself in its full voluntary aspect. November...
...editors that any jokes at our expense will be taken always in the spirit they are made. Judging from its first number, the paper does not intend to be of as terrible a nature as its name would imply, and there is no reason why it should not accomplish much good here if the future numbers are up to the standard of the one we have seen. It is our sincere hope that many more numbers of the "Cambridge Charivarl" will be published, that the pictures of its succeeding issues will be as good as those of the first, that...