Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor the memory of Captain John Ericsson, a Swede who made the greatest contribution to the success of the Union cause in the Civil War, that the memorial has been erected...
...activity of the Harvard Union, debating will possess a different status. Under the surveillance of a well-run organization, it; will presumably receive the regular periodical attention which is the sine quinine of its success...
...What success cannot be predicted is at least to be hoped for. For, free and open college debating under a comprehensible system is much to be desired. At Oxford, it has made statesmen at Harvard it has as yet made nothing...
...Mussey whose language may at times favor the sentimental and the inspirational, but whose thought is fundamentally sound in that it presents a truth which is at the basis of much of the difficulty in modern education: the faculties often are too blinded by the masses with which industrial success has flooded the college to remember that those who really delight in learning and in culture, who can get at the root of things, system or no system, are just as much a part of the college world as they ever were...
...faculties, then," writes Professor Mussey, "will only forget their methods and devices, their endowments and equipment and paraphernalia, their hopes of prosperity and success, of riches and power, their hordes of so-called students indifferent and incompetent--if they will but forget all these and center, their thought on that youth of the starry eyes and the dream in his heart: if they will but see him as the child of this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world...