Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago there was instituted in the Department of the Classics a series of informal discussions whose original purpose was "to provide a foundation both for further study in the classics and for the study of modern literature and civilization." The success of these meetings and the general interest which has been demonstrated towards them by those concentrating in that field has been but one more token of the increasing intimacy between students and their instructors, between those who learn and those whose business it is to teach. Compulsory for men taking certain introductory courses in Latin and Greek, these...
After a year of graduate work, in which he studied under Dean Le Barron Russell Briggs '75, Vorhaus went to California, where he entered the scenario field of the moving picture industry, and in collaboration with Jessie Burns, he met with remarkable success...
Under the capable tutelage of "Pat" Page, whose playing and coaching has been entirely among middle-western schools, Indiana has become a strong factor in middle western football, and their team comes to Soldiers Field with the same style of play which has brought success to Purdue. Chicago, and Notre Dame in intersectional clashes this year, and which Harvard has ample cause to respect...
...stimulation of the forensic art among all members of the University, opened its third season last night under the auspices of the Harvard Union. Its short span of life has been a stormy one of decided ups and downs. On occasions it has reached high peaks of success, on others it has plumbed the depths of undergraduate neglect. Its sponsors and members have gone sturdily forward in the face of the most discouraging sort of apathy, and in spite of repeated disappointments have kept the idea alive. Such is the early history of many a well conceived and worthy enterprise...
...surface examination of the Debating Union's career serves as material for two broad generalizations concerning its success or failure. It has found popularity in numbers through one of two channels. The first has been in picking a subject of timely and intense student interest such as the football debate of two years ago. Enthusiasm was generated here by the presence of speakers, whose prominence in undergraduate affairs and information on the subject, added some zest to the occasion. The second successful method of attack has been to invite an expert or widely known speaker from the outside, whose appearance...