Word: success
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With 18 teams entered in the scrub hockey series, which is scheduled to begin today, the tournament this winter promises to prove a greater success than usual, and will afford pleasure and exercise for a larger number of men than ever before. It is not inappropriate, however, to remind the members of the competing teams that promptness in reporting for games is essential if the championship is to be decided without a great deal of trouble and inconvenience to both managers and players...
...this morning's mail every Senior will receive the notices essential to the future unity and success of his class. Having elected officers, the class of 1911 should stand behind them, and, through the promptness of their attention to these notices, make their greatly detailed work a pleasure rather than a drudge. The responsibility rests on the individual members of the class...
After leaving college Dr. Sexton played baseball with various professional and other teams, including the Boston Nationals. In 1895 and 1896 he coached Michigan, and in both years turned out championship teams. For the last seven years Dr. Sexton has coached Brown with remarkable success. In 1907 all of the 20 games on the schedule were victories. Among the remarkable pitchers that Dr. Sexton developed at Brown are Lynch, Tift, Hatch, and Nourse...
...recent investigation made by the editor of the Bulletin throws new and valuable light on the relation of marks in College to success in after life. Dean Briggs, Dean Wells, and Professor F. E. Farrington '94 each submitted a list of men in the class of '94 whom they considered successful. Twenty-three men were on all three lists. The college records of there were looked up and compared with those of the same number of members of the class taken at random. The "successful" men were found to have obtained in examinations...
Such statistics as these, especially when strengthened by the investigation made by President Lowell last year to ascertain the connection between College and Law School marks, hardly bear out the "undergraduate hallucination which assumes an entire absence of any connection between examination grades and post-collegiate success." The man who takes the view that studies are all that are worth while at College is doubtless narrow-minded, but, on the other hand, the man who fails to recognize the direct relation of studies to general capacity and effectiveness in after life is no less short-sighted...