Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sufficiency of heathenism and of life. Tragedy grimaces from the Inland Sea, tragedy, modified at intervals, by humor, satiric, satisfying. And when one sees the figure of the old preacher and priest. Alurid, pathetic in his own futility, planning the lives of his family and friends quite with out success, when one glimpses his wife, dying of cancer, slowly and with the help of a remorseless and unscientific God, one feels the throb which comes with appreciation of depths really plumbed...
...application of those fundamentals will be watched with interest by everyone. But under the difficulties with which he is necessarily confronted, immediate and undiluted success in winning games is not to be made the measure of the confidence and support which the University will accord him. That support is already complete. It will not be diminished or increased in proportion to the number of touchdowns his team scores in the Stadium next fall. Needless to say this does not alter the fact that ten thousand men of Harvard, or whatever the number has now become, are hoping that great numbers...
When questioned about the prospects for success in the coming debate, Chapman said: "There is a great deal of good material in the college and if we can whip it into shape, things look decidedly bright...
...Centro de Estudios Historicos an address upon "Spanish-America from the view point of a native of the United States". He was introduced by the President of the Spanish Academy, D. Ramon Mevindez Pidal who recalled briefly the important work done by Mr. Ford at Harvard and the great success of his efforts in Paris where he is at present the acting head of the American University Union. He cited various works of Professor Ford's, praising especially his "Spanish Anthology" together with his "Old Spanish Sibilants", "Old Spanish Readings", and an excellent "Spanish Grammar...
...educational venture of any sort, success must be read in great part in terms of the amount of individual and collective rebellion which it inspires. The attitude of its administrators must recognize that the best patterns are those which are most fragile. Mr. Bertrand Russell has pointed out somewhere that the State of New York until very recently held it to be a criminal misdemeanor to teach communism while Soviet Russia had enacted laws to require the teaching of communism. Either the state of New York or Soviet Russia was wrong about communism, and they were both wrong about education...