Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proof of the pudding lies in the eating--and with the digestion. For the past two and a half weeks Harvard College has been busied with an intellectual pudding, the success of which will be inspected for the next three weeks. The first "Reading Period" ever tried in an American University came to a close yesterday; beginning this morning, the results of that Reading Period will be put to test...
...plan was preconceived. The game is simplified. Extraneous machinery is eliminatel. It is less expensive. Initiative and self reliance are encouraged. Secret practice periods are minimized and continued student interest is stimulated. Non-scouting forces a team to concentrate on fundamentals. It was a decided factor in the success of the Yale team this year. This is our experience with the plan...
...plan. Certainly preconceived antipathies might have been entertained by Harvard, but in entering into a non-scouting agreement those antipathies were laid aside; the system was given a fair trial--a trial based on the actual merits of the plan, not on prejudices either for or against its success. The result has been that as far as Harvard is concerned, non-scouting has proved unsatisfactory...
...palm may pass from us in the future. . . . But our task is in the present. Let us meet it together." After her lecture, Preacher Royden, like every other famed British visitor, was asked what she thought of prohibition. Said she: "It is a marvelous adventure. ... I wish it success...
...success of his gesture was greater than Nelson knew. Not because, after his canoe had tipped over and he had been lugged ashore, Claire had the momentary pang of remorse it had been his intention to inspire. But because, on their subsequent encounter, he employed a term of callow reproach of which the effect upon Claire was wonderful and strange. "Out of her rage and pain and the hot pressure of old, old instincts and urges, intelligence was being born. For the first time in her life she had just had a thought...