Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Goodwin spoke on "The School and the Home." He said in contradiction to Dr. Peabody, that it is the public school and not the home that has the greatest influence upon education. The non-success in teaching is due to the failure of the teacher to get into communication with the parents. If the ideas of the parents and the teachers do not converge to a common end, good results cannot be secured from public schools. Moreover, since the greater proportion of the boys who leave school on completing the elementary grades, find themselves inadequately fitted for earning wages...
...whole, Professor Sheffield said, the exchange system is a great success. There is a lamentable ignorance in Germany regarding modern English literature, an ignorance that is only matched by our lack of knowledge regarding German literature. This ignorance will be broken by a few years of the exchange, and even more by the exchange of students which is to be inaugurated in a few years...
...Harvard men took the lead in establishing the first college musical organization in America, and the Pierian Sodality now reaches its hundredth anniversary on March 6. The success of the orchestra has varied from year to year with the musical talent available, but 1908 finds it in a very good way for excellent attainment in classical music...
...members, to whom a transient membership should be a great convenience, and many more who will be attracted by the low cost of regular board now assured. To those who have studied the scheme carefully, its rational provisions for all classes of members leave no doubt of its deserved success...
...will feel perfectly at home in his event. The advantage in working at the present time is that it gives the coach an opportunity to improve men in their form, whereas such an undertaking could not possibly be attempted to any extent a month before a competition. The success of all present record holders in the different branches of sports is due to the fact that they do not lay off during the winter months...