Word: success
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thing and go to what has been advertised as the real product, but too often disappointment is the result. No one therefore who lacks his share of 1916 fun-inspirers should miss "His Majesty Bunker Bean," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, for much more than an average success is realized in this brightest of productions. Cleverness is the keynote which is maintained until the final curtain...
...large 1920 football squad being eligible to play except those who won their numerals against Yale. The Sophomore team, which has been practising for several days, should make a good showing, but the lack of candidates for the Senior and Junior elevens will impair their chances of success...
...prison reform entered in. Conditions changed so that a few years ago the prisons almost all had the honor system. The men worked together in silence and separated at night. Some few 'trusties' were allowed to go outside the walls to do menial labor. But it was not a success; it was in fact a distinct failure. Two-thirds of the graduates from the prisons came back for another term, and most of the rest did not return only because they were too clever to be caught...
Paradoxical as it may sound, success in business today is a direct result of doing the unnecessary. We have all experienced the feeling of incredulity when we discover a man seriously at work on some course of his own making which is not in the College curriculum. We feel a curious mixture of sensations; a little wonder, a little of something much akin to envy, and perhaps unqualified condemnation of his conduct...
...this is the very formula that has been the one important factor of business success in the last decade, and it works as many miracles today as it did ten years ago. So when you see a man who really appreciates its value and has incorporated it into his work, don't pity him-pity yourself...