Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critic of educational methods; recently he was quoted as saying that the American colleges were best fitted for turning out "machine-made aristocrats." He is a strong believer in the personal value of education, and has said that he hopes to see the day when the personal interview will succeed the written examination...
...Prohibition? whether for or against?for its conclusions were fully weighed in the readers' presence. It lacked the stamp of propaganda. There was no doubt that it was prepared in a scientific effort to answer the questions: "Has Prohibition been a success or a failure? Is it going to succeed or fail...
...whose favorite reading matter is the Bible, whose favorite exercise is obtained with an ax handle, who believe that work is the secret of their success, and who - nourished in the fervor of an epoch fat with expansion -have an impugnable faith in every man's ability to succeed. True to the convention of his school, he will devote the rest of his life to farming...
...leave. To bring order out of such chaos was more than one man could accomplish last year and promises to be more than two men can do this year. Another course, English 41, attempts to review the entire subject of the history of English literature and is said to succeed where this course fails by substituting continuity for diversity and breadth of range, and one man's ministrations for the work of many. Whereas English 41 seems in good truth to be a review of English Literature, English 28 could better be described as a review of the professors...
...young or old--may misjudge their fellows, and, misjudging them, may use them cruelly. Yet even in such cases most of the blame belongs usually to the misjudged man. The student who bears himself well and does something for his class or his College is sure eventually to succeed. In the Freshman year a few prizes may be given to attractive loafers; but in the long run the Harvard public insists on some form of achievement. No individual who does anything worth doing, and does it with all his might, need be lost in the crowd at Harvard; and, taken...