Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...honor are returning. With sober face, Harvard bids them back. She realizes that they have gained in power and wisdom that which would have taken her years to give them. But for their own benefit she is encouraging them to return to the detailed study of facts upon which success in life is based. At the same time she has made it as easy as possible for them to enter the courses which the University offers. And now, as a fitting recognition of her trust in her sons' worth, she is to grant those who left for service a degree...
...announcement that the University is definitely to have a Field Artillery Unit is a welcome solution of the military problem. The success of artillery training at Yale has been well established in the war, and moreover many men from other colleges have proved themselves capable artillery officers. This result is not unexpected for it is well appreciated that college men are best suited to perform the specialized duties and complete the exacting training demanded by this branch of the service...
...auditorium of this Museum proved to be hopelessly bad in its acoustic qualities, and President Eliot, who had learned to appreciate Sabine's qualities, asked him to find a remedy. Up to that time success in the building of an auditorium seemed to be almost a matter of chance, and the best architects acknowledged it to be such. In fact it was one of the most famous architects in America who had designed the Fogg Museum...
Sabine undertook the task put before him, and worked at it assiduously for some months with entire success so far is the auditorium of the Fogg Museum was concerned. But he was not content with this success. He proposed to study himself the problem of acoustics with such thoroughness as to make it a part of science. In the course of a few years he was able to do what no other man, so far as we know, had ever been able to do, that is, to foretell with confidence and accuracy from the mere plan and materials...
...prompted his determination to "make the world over"? There are hosts of men who have failed to achieve all that they might have because they lacked this very necessary attribute of true greatness. The vision to see, and the valor to be,--this twofold quality is the secret of success as disclosed to us in the lives of all men whose names are worthy to be recorded on the nation's roll of honor...