Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard will undoubtedly first attain the goal, but it seems that Princeton achieves greater success on the way, for no break is ever sufficiently great to cause an eruption--the Four-Course Plan was after all but a faltering step toward absolutely voluntary attendance at lectures no more than recommended by preceptors, absence of classes, and post-vacation examinations. Harvard, on the other hand, has greater freedom for students in the matter of lecture attendance, has now instituted something of post vocational exams, and the daily recommendation by the CRIMSON of certain worthwhile lectures is evidence that the students...
...that its failure to appear this year has been a distinct inconvenience, and has discovered a distinct need for its appearance next year. The Student Council, however, did not feel justified in hiring a non-graduate to put out the Register, for such a scheme has never met with success...
This enterprise is an innovation and it is one which should be encouraged. Last year 200 members of the N. S. F. A. tried it out and returned home sure that it would be a success in the future. These men were entertained by lords and ladies, peasants, students, professors, politicans. Aside from the better travelling conditions these fours offer college men the movement is a big step towards cementing international friendship in the coming generations...
...restlessness and an eager desire to experiment are tokens of returning health, then collegiate debating has shaken itself free of the lethargic morans associated with the post war years. For several months Harvard has been experimenting cautiously and with some success with the Debating Union. Now Dartmouth and Yale simultaneously announce startling departures in American college debating procedure...
Coincident with his sailing was his 60th birthday on which uncelebrated occasion he remarked: "I have been fortunate in having success come to me, and still more fortunate in not having success chill or isolate me. A kind fate has endowed me with the combined gifts of practical qualities on the one hand, and appreciation of spiritual things, love of beauty and sympathy with my fellow beings on the other. Life is as vivid to me, the great adventure of living as thrilling, as in my early youth...