Word: successful
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...Boston Transcript disagrees with the verdict of such figures and considers the assertion "that the attainment of high grades in collegiate studies is normally necessary to the attainment of success in life" an absurdity. In order to expose the absurdity of this view the Transcript cites the classic example of Generals Grant and Lee in the Civil War. The latter attained the highest rank at West Point, while Grant was satisfied with "a gentleman's standard," yet in their later careers the advantage appears to have been reversed. Upon careful investigation and reference to impartial authorities, Lee, fighting...
...acquirement by the student of the habit of concentrated work which resulted in the high grades is the valuable asset. Every man who graduates from college with honors must have learned the best method of accomplishing mental tasks thoroughly, and it is this training that assures his success in after life. Some learn the lesson of close mental application to particular problems without the aid of a college education, but the fact remains that self-made men possess this all-important faculty. If statistics show that a greater percentage of honor men among college graduates acquire the secret of success...
...result of this limited range of contest, it may be affirmed without doubt that interest in the success of the chess team has been subordinated to a less intellectual interest in the successful issue of the annual football game with Yale. In many ways this attitude is unfortunate. Chess was in vogue among the polite countiers of Kubla Khan when the game of football was played with a rough stone, kicked about the wild British moors by half-naked tribesmen. And chess will remain a noble game when the last goal post has rotted and the last pigskin has burst...
...Cambridge as yet. Up to the present time there has been no section roped off at the Stadium for organized cheering, and no attempt has as yet been made to practice the Harvard songs. On the other hand Cornell has lived for this one game alone ever since their success last year, and the publications at that college have been full of Harvard-Cornell matter all summer and all this fall. The Cornell rooters are to arrive in Boston Friday in time to hold a big smoker for 600 men and work up all the enthusiasm possible for the Saturday...
...first Boston performance of Sir Herbert Tree's production of "Henry VIII" will be held in the Hollis Street Theatre tonight. In commenting on the success which the celebrated English actor has made in the play, Dr. F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the English Department, says...