Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Affairs turned out well enough to disappoint all the birds of ill omen. Not only did the Glee Club attain unusual success in their winter series of concerts about Cambridge, but also reached in their concert in conjunction with Fritz Kreisler the height of a phenomenal season. Those who heard the University singers on that occasion came away astonished that a group of amateurs could in so short a time have been trained to such a point of perfection. Their rendering of early church music, their presentation of classical pieces met with the universal acclaim of critics and public alike...
...them. In other words, the cadet teaches himself. The character-forming habits instilled by the rigorous system of study are as valuable as the subject-matter learned. Self-reliance, concentration, constant application to the work in hand, all these qualities are developed, must be developed to attain success...
...prove most valuable in this work and who are retained to the end of the competition will be elected to the Register Board and will have an opportunity to attain higher positions on the board next year. The most successful candidate this spring will be elected Assistant Business Manager in the Sophomore year, and automatically becomes Business Manager his Junior year. For Freshmen who have failed to go out for other competitions the Register offers special advantages, as it offers them an opportunity to make an important University publication. Financial opportunities, subject to certain regulations of the Student Council, will...
...more chance for that publicity he craves. Let him marry a laundress and set up a delicatessen store in New Rochelle, N. Y. The resultant bankruptcy and divorce proceedings will figure largely in the journals of his old well-wisher, Herr Hearst. For he will never attain prominence as a "second story" man. He lacks the necessary imagination, or else, since nobody loves him, he can continue to go out into the garden--and saw wood...
...deprecated the worth of this type of training. In order to carry this wartime supremacy into the present time of peace, the undergraduate must keep his mind not only informed, but also keenly alert on current topics. Lectures by competent speakers on contemporary affairs are the best way to attain this result, and further series on other subjects should follow the present talks conducted by the Liberal Club...