Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth enters a U. S. college he soon loses any uncouth and ridiculous characteristics which he may possess and begins to conform to the collegiate prototype which, though nonexistent, is easily recognisable. Not so when he enters Oxford. Buoyed up by the feeling that he has already made a success of himself, he cannot easily forgive the apathy which British Oxonians feel towards him. This is at the source of an annoyance, to which there are many tributaries. In some cases the annoyance dries up. In others it may flood into a letter, such as that of an "American Oxonian...
...without arrogance along its tonsured lawns. He will drink, perhaps, at bump suppers until he has become intoxicated. On his individual behavior as on the particular behavior of his 31 merry or pious, ugly or presentable, agile or clumsy, drunken or abstaining, riotous or serene companions, will depend the success of this latest batch of U. S. scholars in Oxford...
...gets all his effects by raising one corner of his triangular mustaches, by flipping one hand in a small arc to indicate either the tremendous futility of life or his willingness to marry a rich & beautiful woman. In Serenade he impersonates a young composer who, in the flush of success, takes advantage of his wife's good nature. After she retaliates by taking advantage of his credulity, gently implying the presence of a lover where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events leading...
...upon the prosecution of this most important part of the plan that the question of its success will probably depend. Such alliances between graduate and undergraduate have had varying values in the past. This latest arrangement smacks of permanence...
...College always sketch the type of examination which they propose to give. Of the other three this may be said: such a platform leaves no room for a test of the student's powers of coordination. In the individual lies his ability to write scattered threads; his success in so doing determines his success as a student. If his thinking is to be made mechanical he may as well give up all ambitions of becoming "educated...