Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the introduction of the tutorial system, Harvard has made a great concession to the importance of teaching, of inspirational contact between instructor and student, in undergraduate work, but before the system can achieve any true educational success the constraining of feet of the divisional examinations must be removed. With them constantly in sight, literature becomes for teacher and taught a mere field of cut and dried grain that must be hastily gathered in before the storm. It is unappetizing but necessary fodder--not a thing of beauty, allve, and to be enjoyed for its own sake...
...wife voluntarily made good, though he knew a legal quibble which invalidated his endorsement. Factual was and is the Society for Savings, a bank operated in the interests of depositor-members, with which Mr. Herrick early associated himself and of which he is now Chairman of the Board. Success and wealth were his with the turn of the century. From then Myron Timothy Herrick enlarged his vision to scan future conquests...
...success of the first year of the plan for housing married students has prompted the new move. An academic year's experience showed that the plan was sound both from the college viewpoint and the financial aspect...
...strain the average man is more careful of his leisure hours than in less hurried moments, that when time for it is limited, recreation is subjected to a more thoughtful process of selection. It is thus that a revue which draws the tired business man is considered a success, and that due publicity is given a novel which has held a high executive's attention. Even the undergraduate, subconsciously or other wise may be said to see fewer and better movies during an examination period...
...yields to the universal question of "who killed him?" Mr. Philo Vance to say nothing of his anonymous creator must be gratified in spite of his indifferent pose at the numbers who follow his monthly pursuit of the criminal; and when at last his efforts are crowned with inevitable success, he will have the satisfaction of seeing a distinct loosening of tension in a community not usually distinguished for its interest in anything...