Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garden of Eden. High were the hopes that carried first nighters to this imported mockery. The play had been a mad success in Germany; had been adapted for the local trade by facile A very Hopwood;* was reputedly risque (the cynic likes a bawdy joke as well as do the home folks); and had been proposed for various famed actresses (Jeanne Eagels, et al). Miram Hopkins† finally got the part and did well enough with it; probably better than the part deserved For the play was pale. To be sure Miss Hopkins was called upon to disrobe almost constantly...
Last year dormitory football was a great success and games were played three times a week. This year the schedule will be a little lighter and there will only be two games a week between the dormitories...
Following on the success of last year's ten dances which furnished entertainment after the football games, a new series of dances for this fall has been announced by Davidson Sommers '26, Graduate Secretary of the Union...
...composed of Princeton and Harvard graduates actually meet in the Yankee Stadium will the report of the game scheduled for October 30 be more than half-believed. To arrange the teams is a difficult project for even C. C. Pyle. If played, the game will doubtless be a financial success, and will attract wide publicity. It will do nothing, however, toward "burying the hatchet" between Princeton and Harvard. For the hatchet has been buried ever since the break eleven months ago, and the resumption of athletic relations must await the time when a Princeton-Harvard undergraduate contest will not cause...
Only in the closing paragraphs does the article seem reasonable. It justly attributes the unparalleled success of the German preparatory schools to the masterly training of their instructors. That is the place for American educational reform as long as it must be discussed. Why doesn't Mr. Holmes bemoan the existing practice of allowing ordinary normal school graduates to guide the child in the early formative years of his life? Why does it cry that the problem lies in the students' race for graduation units, when that is an extremely minor issue? Why should a child, who would rather...