Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Rhodes' will "My desire being that the students who shall be elected to the scholarships shall not merely bookworms, I direct that in the election of a student regard shall be had to (1) his literary and scholastic attainments, (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports . . . . (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty . . . . . kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (4) his exhibition of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and take an interests in his schoolmates...
...group of unknown Freshmen to a rum punch implies that to make good with that organization Freshmen must come to the punch. And this is likely to lead men to the habit of drinking during their Freshman year, a thing that is not necessary either for any organization's success or for the success of Freshmen...
...play has to do with the skepticism of one of the daughters. She thinks that she'll have to give up her beau because his family is decidedly different from the Sycamores. But he is soon won over to the happy-go-lucky system, and his and Grandpa's success in conquering the girl and the boy's parents is the avenue of happiness...
...miss Author Briffault's point. At the front Julian sees a coward's drunken action win a V.C. Nurses who served with "Martyr" Edith Cavell show no sympathy for her admirers. Meeting Lenin on his way back to Russia to guide the revolution, Julian wishes him every success. Briffault's spokesman-hero, written down as missing after a hopeless attack, recovers in a German hospital, goes to Russia rather than return to perfidious England after the Armistice. There he finds Zena again, marries her. Though he survives both the Red-&-White civil war and Zena...
...years ago, a group of distinguished scholars in Russia undertook three series of publications under the titles: "New Ideas in Philosophy," "New Ideas in Sociology," and "New Ideas in Law" (Jurisprudence); with each issue in each series devoted to one topic alone, the series had a rather big success. Something similar to that could be done with each issue of the Guardian. Such issues would represent not only creditable congeries of essays but would become something of lasting value even for professors and outsiders. They might well find a place among useful and important works...