Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requirement of an ample quantity of manuscript and the strict enforcement of a time limit on assignments would in all probability stimulate the student to the degree of effort demanded by the faculty. Such mechanical rules have proven successful before in driving the low-ranking undergraduate to the Pierian spring. For success over and above the minimum necessary to place a composition course on the standard level, an able instructor is prerequisite. Such a teacher would soon discover which of his pupils sought to shade the indispensable C close to its lower margin. For these men, administrative rigors of quantity...
...become an inevitable part of even a selfish scheme of mass production. For the producers must have consumers for their products and they can best be assured of them by raising the wages of their employees so as to make liberal consumers of them. The greatest testimony to the success of this scheme is the Ford automobile industry. Ford makes the cheapest and yet best product of its kind, pays double wages, and yet makes more himself than anyone else in American industry. At the same time his men do not become more machines, nor is their life reft...
Lieut. Brown enlisted in the air service in 1917 and was rapidly promoted. In 1924 he was appointed chairman of the World Flight committee, and was largely instrumental in the success of the venture. Since September 1924 Lieut. Brown has been in charge of the Boston Airport...
...last report, attributed the relative inferiority of American universities to the difficulty of having to cope with the mental immaturity of incoming freshmen. For this condition, the secondary schools are chiefly responsible. Faced by the specter of the College Entrance Board examinations, they are inclined to make success in them the standard of achievement. The successful high or preparatory school teacher is the one who can bring the largest percentage of his pupils safely by the examiners' perils. And since surmounting these is within the reach of almost all, secondary instruction jogs along in peaceful mediocrity...
...real job in producing a successful football team next year doesn't lie with me, or the other coaches who will be appointed later, but with you men who are going to make up the team," was Horween's opening remark on next season's program. "I'll be here to tell you everything I know and to give you all the help I can, but it is you who are going to actually play the games, and it is with you that the ultimate success of the season must rest. I am proud to come to Harvard to coach...