Word: success
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Eduardo Raybaud, military attache to the Argentine Embassy at Washington, in an article in the Yale News, writes of the success of the compulsory military service system in vogue in his country...
Joseph Hodges Choate '52, one of the leading figures in American public life, succumbed to an attack of heart failure at 11.30 Monday night. His sudden death resulted probably indirectly from the strenuous efforts put forth last week to welcome the Allied missions and to promote their complete success...
...strength of England in the battle of the age. He took part in the formation of that union which was the consummation of his hopes. Perhaps it would not have been worth much more for him to have remained yet a year or a decade seeing the success in achievement of those whom he had helped to unite in spirit. He must have known before he died that such an entente could not fail of any goal it might undertake, however lofty, however distant...
...cannot tell them, as other classes have been told, to make a success, to win large rewards, that, returning a quarter of a century hence, they may be proud with the pride of possession. The old ambitions have departed...
...important part in organizing the sports of the intercollegiate world. As president of the Archaeological Institute of America he placed that body on a firm foundation. He had an important part in establishing the American Schools of Classical Studies in Athens and Rome. He greatly contributed to the success of the famous performance of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles in 1881. As editor and writer of school and college text books in Greek he was with professor Goodwin the most widely known of American Grecians, both in this country and England. Probably no other teacher of Greek in America...