Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner to Mr. W. J. Bingham '16 at the Lenox Hotel in order to express their appreciation of his unfalling kindness and consideration to them during his service as assistant graduate treasurer and head track coach. Mr. N. R. O'Hara '15 made a farewell speech and wished him luck on his voyage next Monday when he sails for Europe. This is the first time that any such mark of esteem has been shown by Boston newspapermen to a Harvard coach...
...complex system, like the time-clock of a business establishment. To the individual in the course, he represents the frailties of the human flesh, to be plied with the wine of excuse and entreaty until his will is bent to the individual's purpose. The storm of hard-luck stories and heart-appeals that daily besiege a monitor's ear would do credit to a Hollywood composition course. And it is the sternest of the monitorial clan that cannot be bent now and then before the storm...
...hard for success against great odds as any Harvard track team. No doubt is felt in regard to the showing the team will make with its clean, hard-fighting spirit. To Captain Brown, to Coaches Bingham and Farrell, and to every member of the squad Harvard wishes good luck...
...this line of reasoning are intentionally general. When applied personally they open pleasing vistas for those inclined to the "God fights on the side of the heaviest artillery" school of philosophy. It is dangerously easy for the small school freshman for instance to sit back, "down on his luck", satisfied that he is not responsible for his non-success in college or anywhere else,--that he is merely the victim of unfavorable circumstances. The personal equation is forgotten...
...invaluable aids to the man in politics. He added that the study of law was not at all necessary, though, of course, it would be a great advantage if the student could devote the time to it. "But after all", he continued, "success in politics does not come by luck--it comes by hard work and self-sacrifice; getting to know people, or acquiring special capabilities in public administrative work". Mr. Peters was asked to comment on the interest of the career as compared with business or professional work, and he answered, "Politics is extremely interesting. It gives a chance...