Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...apply for rooms in the Senior Dormitories for next year, as applications close next Thursday, January 18, and none will be received after that date. Very few Juniors have as yet signified their intention of rooming in the Yard and if the Senior Dormitory system is to prove a success all members of the Class of 1918 or those whose last year in College will be 1917-18 should apply without delay...
...relation between high marks in college and success in later life remains an interesting, and for lack of trustworthy evidence, a puzzling problem. It is complicated by the fact that such success is so various that it is impossible to lay down a universal standard by which men's relative attainments can be measured. Wealth, eminence in public affairs, social usefulness and historical fame are all legitimate objects of human endeavor, and none can be set above the rest or even expressed in terms of any other...
...whole, then, all these studies point in a consistent direction; those who are destined to achieve distinction do so at an early age. Whether measured by achievement in academic courses, honors in professional and technical courses, salary earned after graduation, or inclusion among lists and directories of eminent men, success in later life is suggested by the early work of the school curriculum. In spite of frequent comments to the contrary, the school curriculum would seem to constitute a most useful test in prognosticating at least the most probable quality of the individual's later work...
...Regiment gained its success in the enthusiasm it aroused for an essential cause and in emulation by other colleges. It had the greatest success in the hundreds of Harvard men who went to the Plattsburg camps, there to undergo a period of more intensive training...
This year the authorities, with a wisdom not entirely apparent to all of us, but which no doubt is sufficient, have considered the active Regiment as no longer necessary. In how much the newer method of theoretical instruction combined with some drill is successful time has been too short to show. We can consider ourselves fortunate that Captain Cordier, to whom so much of the Regiment's success is due, was in command, especially during the first weeks of the Regiment's organization...