Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...golf. The teachers of such great players as "Bobby" Jones, Alexa Stirling, and others have not been tournament winners themselves, and I believe I am safe in saying that the outstanding professional golfers can point to few, if any, of their pupils who have also risen to great success. A rough and ready sort of reasoning seems to fit this condition...
...have our best wishes for success. Lawrenco K. Lunt, President Harvard Club of Berkshire...
...must, from its very nature, retain a majority of the features which have made it so popular in college and school circles if it is to be popular in the professional world, and it is on the ability of professional promoters to make it do this that their success will depend. In Great Britain professional soccer has proved wonderfully successful drawing crowds of from 75,000 to 100,000; but the two games are of an entirely different nature, and one cannot judge the future of American professional football from what has taken place in the professional soccer world, especially...
Captain Debevoise tried desperately to break the steadiness of his opponent's play by changing his style of game several times, without much success. Wright was going at top speed from the start and his supposed weakness against a soft...
...strong prepossession in favor of the tutorial system, as he has heard of it by report from the few colleges in which it has actually been tried. It may seem strange and incongruous, that students of Harvard, where the tutorial system has been tried with such great success, should hesitate and finally reject the proposal to extend that system to the exclusion of the lecture system. We believe, however, that such will be the general reaction at Harvard to Dr. Meiklejohn's suggestion...