Word: success
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...Northfield Student Conferences began more than 40 years ago at Mt. Hermon, and were moved the next year to East Northfield where they have been held ever since. Many similar organizations have been established in other portions of the country with great success. The complete personnel of the Harvard delegation has not yet been determined upon. All who are interested should communicate with Phillips Brooks House as soon as possible. Last year the University's representation was very much cut down on account of the war, and so it is especially desired to secure a large delegation this spring...
Mention should also be made of the Thanksgiving and Christmas entertainments which were carried out this year, as in the past, with marked success, and of the revising and enlarging of the register of rooms and lodgings available for students, in anticipation of the large number of men returning to College after January...
...plan instituted last year for promoting discussion and thought among the students on present day political, economic, and social questions was renewed this year with equal success and interest. Weekly Discussion Groups, led by a professor or instructor, have been held since the beginning of the year under the direction of the Christian Association of Brooks House with entirely satisfactory results. A series of discussion meetings, called "A Forum for Harvard Men," were begun on February 11, when Professor Wiener talked to 160 students on "Bolshevism" and subsequent meetings were addressed by Professor Munro, Professor Carver, President Eliot and others...
Such in outline was the work of Phillips Brooks House Association during the past twelve months. Too much credit cannot be given to the Graduate Secretary, H. Thurston '16, who, as author of every new plan, has been solely responsible for the success of the Association's efforts; to W. Tibbetts '17, for his valuable work as Associate Graduate Secretary; to the members of the War Cabinet, whose time and energy enabled Brooks House to carry on its good work in a most difficult period; and to my own associates of the Executive Cabinet for their faithful co-operation...
...carried on by the Phillips Brooks House Association. We print the reports today in the hope that as many members of the University as possible will read them. For to read them is to feel as we do. They are a record of the phenomenal progress and well-deserved success of a work assumed unselfishly and thoroughly well done...