Word: success
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...buildings at once, and that some unfortunates will have to go elsewhere. Defects and disappointments may develop, but today President Lowell and Harvard are heartily to be congratulated on the new departure; every one who hopes for real democracy in our colleges must join in wishing for its complete success...
...LeGore, the sensational player of last year's Freshman's team, who, at fullback has proved his value as a plunger, as a runner, and as a kicker. As to the tactics which Yale will adopt nothing is yet certain. Forward passes and delayed pass plays worked with a success more than pleasing to the Blue coaches...
There is nothing mysterious about attaining success; it is simply a question of the members of the incoming class entering heartily into the task of acquiring an education, and enlightening that by entering into some branch of the various activities to be found here; and pursuing the work until something has been achieved for yourselves, your class and for Harvard. This community lays stress upon work well done, whether it is on the football field on in the classroom. The men who become-dissatisfied with their College careers in their Senior year are generally those who cannot look back upon...
...last hundred years that these methods of support, combined with the privilege of exemption from taxation, can be trusted in this country to maintain an institution of the first class generation after generation: and that the graduates of such an institution can hold their own in regard to professional success and public service-ableness in competition with the graduates of any other institution of higher education however supported...
...sympathetic, and it is matched by considerable skill of descriptive phrase. Of briefer compass, the lyrics are not without charm, notably, "Weitschmerz," "The Vision of Heart's Delight," and "Laughter and the Rain." The ethical impulse is strong in the author; but it is genuinely striving, not without success, to utter itself in forms of beauty. These verses fall short ultimately not because they are "badly expressed," for they are not; rather the lack is that there is yet much to see and to feel. The poet here has left "room ahead of himself." These are but First Fruits...