Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...delivery will be made on or before April 15. To men not measured by Saturday the price will be $5.65 and delivery will not be made until some time in May. In order that the wearing of caps and gowns after May 1 may be a success, all Seniors are urged to be measured before Saturday. CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...Association, which arose from the need of the investigation of the records of candidates for the City Council. To accomplish this, the Association, by means of volunteer investigators, traces carefully the records of all candidates, and sends printed circulars describing them to the voters. It has had an increasing success, last year placing the four men recommended for aldermen at the top of the poll...
...delivery will be made on or before April 15. To men not measured by Saturday the price will be $5.65 and delivery will not be made until some time in May. In order that the wearing of caps and gowns after May 1 may be a success, all Seniors are urged to be measured before Saturday. CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...undoubtedly the best. Its characters are Harvard men who do not "merely sleep in Cambridge," as a recent reviewer has remarked of most undergraduate heroes of fiction; it has atmosphere and color, and a sufficient plot; and in its fundamental idea that straightforward honesty is the surest means of success it emphasizes one of the most cherished of Harvard ideals. The other two stories are well written, but neither is strikingly original. The greybearded spinner of the impossible story of "Dead Man's Pine" is vividly and convincingly drawn, and the inconsistencies of his yarn are not too much insisted...
...fancied superiority. The political wrong-headedness of such men is quite as great as that of wholly uneducated men, and no people could be less trust-worthy as critics and advisers. The educated man who seeks to console himself for his own lack of the robust qualities to bring success in American politics by moaning over the degeneracy of the times, instead of trying to better them, by railing at the men who do the actual work of political life, instead of trying himself to do the work, is a poor creature, and, so far as his feeble powers avail...