Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student Council. If the present Sophomore and Junior classes can effect this change in the constitution it will save certain future students a vast amount of worry. Or, if they prefer, the classes can vote to hold an election for the most popular man in the class--that will accomplish the purpose of the present arrangement and may attract more attention...
...college does not pretend to verse the undergraduate in the rules of his future business; that is the purpose of the graduate school. A college is satisfied if it can teach the undergraduate to reason, to think clearly. The problem of how best to accomplish this is puzzling educational boards throughout the country...
...competed in various relay meets, and also as individual entrants in several of the big indoor events in Boston, but the triangular meet marked the first appearance of the team as a whole. The University team went into this contest a doubtful quantity, and few expected the runners to accomplish much in the way of scoring. The Crimson athletes, however, surprised everyone; the work of the runners showed the first effects of the new spirit which Coach Bingham was trying to give the team. The appearance which the team made on outsiders was shown by the statement appearing...
...suggested that a man can loaf half a year or half a lifetime, then, after a few minutes of musical massage, jump in and accomplish feats to astonish the natives. But when the preliminary drill has been faithfully performed, such a period of relaxation before the final effort, be it examination, art or business, does marvelously heighten the powers of concentrated effort. --Boston Globe...
...know what the fighting spirit did at Yale last week and we know that the teams which meet Princeton have that spirit. If today that spirit is backed up by support in the Stadium and the bleachers, there should be no limit to what "the fighting sprit" can accomplish...