Word: successful
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Seldom does the University have the same leader in a major sport in two successive years, yet such is the honor which has fallen upon William Moore, captain of this season's track team. This past year has been one well fitted to test the leadership of any man to the utmost. The showing made by the team at the recent intercollegiates was due in large part to the efforts of its captain. The CRIMSON extends its congratulations and best wishes for even greater success in the coming year...
...accordance with the wish of Mr. Rhodes, the Trustees desire that "in the election of a student to a scholarship, regard shall be had to (1) his literary and scholastic attainments, (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports, such as cricket, football, and the like, (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (4) his exhibition during the schooldays of moral force of character, and of instincts to lead and take an interest in his schoolmates." Mr. Rhodes suggests that...
...worked through the grades of his apprenticeship and reaches the presidency of the paper, he has one short half-year of life and then passes on to make way for a successor; his skill is necessarily gained late. These are reasons why most undergraduate publications have only streaks of success and long waste spaces of desolation and boredom; and conversely, the writing of graduate students and younger members of the instructing staff gives the Harvard Magazine an advantage of which it is unseemly that it should inferentially boast...
...whole new curriculum is focused on the idea, not of personal success, but of service to the nation," said W. H. P. France, President of Brown University recently...
...University has seen that ideas are not the result of any special curriculum, but of a system which encourages the student to think. Two factors are preeminent to the success of such a system. First, many instructors who stimulate thought; second, an opportunity for instructors to meet the undergraduates for discussion and an emphasis on a general grasp of the subject rather than a knowledge of details. The second factor the University has already grasped and acted upon; it remains to develop the first. This will take time. In the meanwhile it is deeply satisfactory to know that Harvard...