Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual meeting for the award of distinctions, held last evening in Sanders Theatre, was a great success, largely due to the speech by President Hadley of Yale University on "The Obligations of the Prize Winner." Deturs were awarded to about twenty scholars of the first group who had never before received this form of academic recognition, and the names of the principal prize winners and scholars of the past year were read...
...generations ago the successful debater was the intellectual idol of our colleges, and the art of ex tempore speaking was cultivated by all classes of students. Towards the end of the nineteenth century all this changed very suddenly. The man who a few years before would have been the intellectual idol of his fellows came to be regarded with indifference, if not with suspicion. Now it is no longer success in oratory, but success in sport, that is over-idolized. There is no doubt that we should be a great deal better off if public attention were more largely fixed...
...strenuous campaign, permission was secured to make a trip into the Middle West at Christmas time, but it was fairly well understood at the time that the granting of the privilege should by no means be considered a precedent for future organizations. The trip last year was a success in every way. Musically, the clubs were considerably above the average and the trip afforded a good opportunity for the graduates and others interested in Harvard in the communities they visited to hear them. It will be just as well to postpone another trip for a few years and to take...
...medal has been contested for in a formal debate between two teams of three men each. The basis of formal debating is co-operation and consequently an individual prize is hardly appropriate for such a contest. Furthermore, debating has become so highly specialized that it offers little chance of success to the man who has not had considerable previous training. So the competition for the Pasteur Medal has been limited to men who were already debaters, and experience has shown that these men are not the best fitted to discuss a subject which requires a knowledge of French...
...Sophomore entertainment committee at a meeting yesterday decided to hold a series of four dinners during the year. One-fourth of the class will be invited to each of these dinners by the committee in charge. In order to insure their success each man should come when he is invited, and thus avoid confusion. The committee will endeavor to obtain some outside speaker on each occasion and there will be impromptu speeches by members of the class. The committee elected G. R. Harding chairman...