Word: successful
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Active work of the Harvard Fund Council the controlling board of the Harvard Fund which was introduced with success last year to the alum of the University as a means for raising annually money for the College and Graduate Schools, will begin for 1927 with two important meetings to be held at the Harvard Club of Boston on January 10 and 25. On January 10, the Council will hold the first of its stated meetings for the year, when publicity plans and general business will be discussed. At this meeting also announcement will be made of the name...
...respecting the prospect and probable usefulness of the International Economical Conference to be held under the auspices of the League of Nations in Geneva this coming May. "For selfish as well as unselfish reasons," continued Professor Young, "the United States should do all they can to help insure the success of the coming conference...
Both financially and socially the trip was a success. The instrumentalists are credited with making money, covering new territory, and being asked back by enthusiastic audiences...
This is a frank statement of the psychology behind the preparatory schoolboy's attitude toward college. Athletics and social success loom over-whelmingly large; the activities of the mind are dwarfed into insignificance. It is the same psychology which remains to a less extent behind the attitude of some undergraduates toward the college. It is the same psychology which makes the mention of the college in the metropolitan newspapers depend in nine cases out of ten upon athletic achievement. Opposed to it is the increasing undergraduate interest in the curriculum, in educational experiments, in the expression of student opinion...
Probably the most effective means for the restoration of a proper balance between these activities, and athletics and social success, in the schoolboy, and also in the undergraduate mind, is wide publicity and active proselyting, methods which have heretofore been largely confined to athletics. The exhibition debate at Milton Academy is an admirable forward step in this direction...