Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current discussion of football in American colleges. Attacking the problem from their own special point of view, that of the student casting about to determine the institution he wishes to enter, they have reduced to precise statistics what has long been only a conjecture,--the fact that success in football exercises a preponderant influence over the minds of schoolboys in their choice of a university...
...since the inauguration of the tutorial system the first cry has been, "more and better tutors." The point is fundamental. Under a poor tutor the system is little more than worthless; a good tutor is often practically all that is needed to make a student's college experience a success. If the Harvard Fund provides more and better tutors by obtaining money to: before available for this purpose, it will justify its existence a hundred fold...
...more orderly marketing calculated to secure a better range of prices, the co-operative movement promises the greatest success. Already the co-operatives are handling $2,500,000,000 of farm produce, or nearly one-fifth of the annual production...
Much of the success of all these efforts depends, of course, on the weather this winter. A severe cold spell will be a boon for makers of anti-freeze mixture...
...success of tutorial meetings in the final analysis, of course, will depend on how instructors succeed in making them attractive, and on how undergraduates receive them. If they achieve the success which is potentially theirs, they will eventually become an integral part of Harvard education. But in such an even, it is greatly to be hoped that in the development of a system they do not lose that informality which is at once their most pleasant and their meet valuable characteristic...