Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plans proposed for common action among nations to prevent war the only one which seems to have a chance of success is that of the League to Enforce Peace, because it proposes the use of force. The experience of the work has shown that when any authority is set up backed by force men cease to carry arms, but are ready, if necessary to support those to whom force is entrusted. The time has come when we must put force behind international law as we do behind every other kind of law that is obeyed...
...year ago this month the companies of the Harvard Regiment held their first drills in the wintry atmosphere of the baseball cage. Today the success and achievements of the thousand men who composed the Regiment are looked back on with pride and a feeling of wonder. On Wednesday, January tenth, a dinner for all the men enrolled last year will be held at the Union, in order to commemorate the establishing of the Regiment and to keep alive the spirit of sacrifice and patriotism that made possible the remarkable results which Captain Cordier obtained. Major-General Leonard Wood...
...than a hundred institutions having made definite offers of assistance in the form of remission of tuition fees or of scholarships covering the expense of both board and tuition. The other part of the project, for a visit of fifty Mexican educators to this country, has met with less success so far, although it may be regarded as the more important half of the plan. The objection has been made that such a visit is not expedient at this time, because of the strained relations between the two countries. This has a fantastic sound. Relations are not what they should...
...ever denied that enjoyment is easier than work, although no doubt less satisfying. Yet no man ever denied that success in anything, at any time, demands hard and consistent work. The choice of a month of leisure or a month of preparation has now come to every man. Even the most slothful blessed with an average college man's intelligence may yet retrieve himself by diligent work. Almost without exception men will decide to do as they have done, the diligent will increase their diligence, the idlers will sleep. For the latter, hopeless as the warning is, it is well...
...defeated in turn. Few of these early games showed the team-play and accuracy in shooting which should have been in evidence even so early in the season. Coach Burgess had continually to battle with a tendency for individual playing which threatened to wreck the prospects for a more successful season than last year's, when the University eleven failed to win a single league game. Evidence of the success of Coach Burgess' efforts was prominent in the next league game at Ithaca, when the University team played Cornell in a hard snowstorm and came out the victor, the score...