Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...business life and in professional life, but of its benefits in life itself, in life in its most general sense, little is heard. It is quite true that the business man is better if he be a college educated man, and that the doctor or lawyer is surer of success if his knowledge of medicine or law be founded on a college training; but is it also true that the man himself, regardless of his occupation or profession, is a better man if he have a college education ? Can he stand higher, not only in a superficial...
...hereafter appointed. Provisions will be made later for undergraduates and employes of the college. Students giving spreads in the yard may obtain extra tickets for ten cents each. The committee desires to have all seniors to take special care in the disposal of yard tickets, in order that the success of class day may be as complete as possible...
...takes place, a program of the different days, classes and subjects is arranged and published. It is not a pretentious document, but it is very interesting to its readers. They pore over the lists and make their arrangements for the cramming process which most students believe is essential to success. Recitations cease a day or two before the first annual, and the intervening days are devoted in most cases to hard study. Cramming, as this pre-examination study is almost universally called, takes a number of different forms. The lower classes, whose time has been almost entirely devoted to mathematics...
Another plan, seemingly rash, is often used, and by its very daring is frequently successful. Writing paper, such as is used in the examinations, is procured, and two or three sheets are closely covered with formulae or whatever else is likely to prove useful. When the time comes for the "cribber" to enter the examination room he places the sheets under his tightly-but-toned coat, walks boldly into the lions' den, seats himself at his table, and hastens to write a page or two of something or other. Just what it is doesn't matter. The main object...
...COLLEGE MAN of business experience (a lawyer by profession) wishes to meet one or two gentlemen who would be willing to join him in contributing their time and a moderate amount of capital in establishing a business enterprise in a Western or Southern city, where the opportunity for success is vastly greater than in New York or New England. The advertiser will satisfy anyone, who would be acceptable, of the unusual advantages of this opportunity; and any gentleman who has not formed definite business plans for the future, should investigate it. Only reliable persons would be satisfactory; and the advertiser...