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Word: attainment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...broad way and one full of the fellowship of others. In the world today, a man's achievement depends upon his power in swaying the minds of men, and this power is impossible without understanding and sympathy. In one's Senior year is the time to attain to this power of sympathizing and understanding, and the consequent broadening and greater efficiency for the things to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BENEFITS OF DORMITORY LIFE | 1/10/1914 | See Source »

...action of those in charge of singing at the football games as indicated in the communication printed elsewhere in this issue seems singularly calculated to attain the end desired. Musical composition like all other forms of artistic endeavor does not flourish under competitive stimulus with a set occasion for its object. We may want new songs, but it is doubtful if they can best be obtained in the old way. On the other hand we realize that no amount of enthusiasm on the part of the students singing a song can contribute anywhere nearly as much toward the perfection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL SONGS. | 10/21/1913 | See Source »

...first place, Sunday school men are in duty bound, in order to attain their ideals, to be active in Social Service work. Thus, they must be represented at tonight's Social Service Conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ALL-INCLUSIVE WORK | 9/30/1913 | See Source »

...largely than those from the immediate vicinity and the man from Missouri, to quote a concrete instance, seems to stand three times as good a chance of being prominent as the man from Massachusetts. This would seem to explode the theory that a man must come from Massachusetts to attain prominence at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT THE RICH MAN'S COLLEGE | 6/10/1913 | See Source »

...That the lavish spenders who do attain undergraduate prominence are relatively very few, and that the amount a man is able to spend has almost no relation to his chances of becoming a leader in undergraduate life, but that such a result depends almost entirely upon his abilities and his character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT THE RICH MAN'S COLLEGE | 6/10/1913 | See Source »

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