Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Secretary Hoover launched into his ponderous report to explain exactly how the last fiscal year was such a business success. Significant points...
...demonstrations, held first or the roof of the Postoffice, later on Salisbury Plain and across Bristol Channel, were so successful that the Italian Government invited me home in 1897, to demonstrate at Spezia, and in Rome before King Humbert and Queen Margherita, Again success was mine. The distance over which I could send anc receive messages was constantly increasing-first a room's length then a building's, a mile, four miles ten miles, twenty miles...
...declared that there should be a series of compulsory general courses given in the opening, years of college whose purpose should be primarily to arouse and stimulate intellectual curiosity in the student. At the end of the Sophomore year general examinations should cover the field of these courses, and success in these should admit the student to the higher courses, where in the last two college years there should be specialization, and greater academic freedom. A modified tutorial system would provide the best means of effecting this condition of affairs, he said...
Anticipates Success...
...long as this attitude prevails. However, the merits of the controversy are of small import compared with the value in forcing a new appraisal of the game of football judged from the point of view of the undergraduate, not the graduate who measures his college's prestige by the success of its football team. The Independent