Word: success
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...surely the people of the United States are recognizing the pitiful inadequacy of our army and the utter inability of this country to defend itself against the attack of another power of similar magnitude. Evidences of such an awakening have appeared during the last two years in the success of the Plattsburg camps, the organization of the Naval training Cruise, and the sporadic efforts of the many preparedness societies. The events of last summer on the Mexican border disclosed the weakness of the system of State Militia, and focused the attention of all patriotic citizens on the great national question...
...instructor in English composition Barrett Wendell was probably the foremost of Americans. His textbook, which has generally supplanted the old rule of thumb volumes that made composition one of the dryest of studies, is itself an entertaining literary work. He has endeavored, with considerable success, to make writing a pleasure rather than a task...
Since the class of 1918 was the first to live in the Freshman dormitories, its progress has been watched with particular closeness by all interested in the ultimate success of the new system. A comparison between the number of men from 1918 desiring to live in the Yard, and the number from this year's Senior Class shows that over sixty more Juniors applied for rooms this year. Although it cannot be concluded from this fact that the Freshman dormitories are a great improvement over the scattered plan of rooming of former classes, it is evident that a more universal...
Edison has repeatedly maintained that his success is principally the result of perseverance, and he declares that genius is "one-tenth inspiration and nineteenths perspiration." This view seems to be logical, but at the same time in direct contradiction to the theory that President Lowell has so often expounded. The latter declares that the world needs men who have the imagination to find new problems, and emphatically not the kind of men who can automatically solve any problem that is presented to them...
...University hockey team has almost reached top form for the game with Princeton in New York tomorrow evening. The work of the men against the B. A. A., last year's Amateur Hockey League champions, in yesterday's practice game at the Arena gives great promise for success against the Tigers, for the Boston seven was unable to score till the last minute of the scrimmage and lost...