Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to prove that farming can be made a success and that it is entitled to the same consideration from capital and businessmen as any other industry. It presents the greatest opportunity today for the mechanical engineer. It is rather hard to increase the selling price of a commodity which competes with foreign markets and does not have tariff protection. The alternative is to reduce the cost of production or get tariff protection...
Political atmosphere in Washington can often be gauged, inversely, by the success of Gridiron skits. At last week's horseplay, the least laughter resulted when the scribes tried to joke about Secretary Kellogg's application of the Monroe Doctrine to oil wells...
...spite of the fact that the decidedly superior record of the Bruin squad makes it a favorite, Coach Lewis expects his pupils to give their opponents plenty of opposition. On the outcome of tonight's contest hinges the success of the Crimson grapplers' record in their preliminary season. To date, they have two victories, two defeats, and a tie to their credit. The Brown wrestlers, on the other hand, have won five consecutive victories, including among their victims Yale, University of Pennsylvania...
...have long felt that American students attend too many lectures and classes and do too little work on their own account. The new Harvard plan seems to me a courageous effort to improve the curriculum in this respect. Its success will depend entirely upon the undergraduates...
...matters involving discipline and undergraduate morale. No true educator could be found today to hold that any such reform can ever be effectively instituted without the sympathy and support of the students themselves. The question of cooperation in strictly educational problems is not so clear. For concrete proof of success of such a policy as that inaugurated by the Overseers, we will have to wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student has certain things to contribute...