Word: success
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the men who eventually amounted to something in the world spent their time in the agreeable dalliance of College society while they were undergraduates and then in their professional schools would turn to their life work, taking there high rank and attaining in the world of men immediate success. This was reinforced in their minds by the gossip of their elders to the effect that first scholars in college drifted into the obscurity of the ill-paid school-teacher or the unknown country parson. The fallacy of this belief and the danger of this prejudice is pointed...
President Lowell's article on "The Relationship between Rank in College and the Professional Schools" proves beyond question that unless one attains, by hard work, in some department of learning, high standing in college, he cannot hope for great success in his professional school. In the Law School the chance of obtaining a cum laude is almost ten times as great for a man with a summa cum laude in college as for a man who graduated with a plain degree; for the man with a magna cum laude it is six times as great, and for a man with...
...article by the Editor of the magazine shows the success that first scholars attain in their after life in the world at large,--thus clinching the argument. Equally interesting are the life records made by them as Mr. Thayer marshals his facts. Most of the first scholars have been not ministers but lawyers by profession, but often the lawyers have used the law as a ladder to public office. In the list are five United States Senators, ten Representatives, two ministers to Great Britain, three members of the Cabinet, three for- eign ministers, one members of the Continental Congress...
Besides his success in athletics, Burr received a Harvard College scholarship for his academic work during his last year in College. He had been a member of the Governing Board of the Union since 1909 and represented the Law School on the Union Library Committee. He had just begun his second year's work in the Law School when he was taken...
...Faculty has given definite assurance of its intention to delegate certain powers to the Council, provided this body proves itself worthy of the Faculty's confidence and respect. It is, therefore, essential that the success of the Council be not jeopardized by lack of student support. The Juniors have the first opportunity to vote on the Council, and they should realize the important influence that a large and affirmative vote will have upon the attitude of the other classes at subsequent elections...