Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal qualities which enabled Mr. Hoover to succeed where scores of national leaders failed in the ordeals the war created are: a true and enlightened humility that with unerring sense seeks, welcomes and uses the cooperation of other men of sound knowledge and patriotic purposes; and second that good will which springs from a full heart and which inspires good will in men of all ranks to pull together for the success of the cause. It is attested by thousands of colleagues, lieutenants and subordinates in the ranks. It met with instinctive recognition in the two thousand people who heard...
There is no panacea for labor disputes. Even Australia, administered by a Labor government, was recently tied up by an enormous railway strike. The American plan can only succeed in averting trouble if it creates the spirit of industrial peace; and this it seems admirable fitted...
...general examination plan is to succeed in its purpose of developing men with a real knowledge of their subject rather than a superficial ability to cram for tests, the tutorial system must be made of more importance in the College curriculum. This system aims to furnish a link between courses and co-ordinate all the work a man does in College into a unified whole. At present, however, it only adds to the old cramming system. Undergraduates cram for their tutorial conferences quite as much as for tests and to just as little purpose. The idea that the tutor stands...
...struggle. The medicine, from our point of view, may be very beneficial. But that will not make it taste any better to the recipient; and unless the latter knows the purpose of the remedy, as well as the nature of his ailment, the cure is not likely to succeed...
...mental, without his own consent and active assistance. If we are to solve the problem of the foreign-born population, it can only be by enlisting their aid. Unless they understand exactly our aims and our motives, and lend their sympathy and co-operation, no program of "Americanization" can succeed...