Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Silver dollars, which last indefinitely, could be used, but the public will not have them (TIME, Apr. 20, BUSINESS). The Government tried several months ago to pass them out, but without success...
Peking. Students attempted, not without considerable success, to foment a strike of all Chinese workers and to enforce a boycott of the British and Japanese (TIME, June 8, 15). Demonstrations were held. Schools and shops were closed. Dead students were carried in parades with the inscription: "Killed by the English in Shanghai.* " Cries of "Kill the British!" "Kill the Japanese!" were heard frequently. Part of the native press supported the students and the Government's policy favored them. Subscription lists were opened and bankers promised aid. After the killings at Hankow (see below), the students demanded that the Government...
From the student's point of view its complete success depends upon recognition that the experimental stage is at an end, Tutorial work deserves to be given greater importance. It must no longer be left to those marginal moments that remain after course requirements are satisfied. It must become the prominent obligation of Junior and Senior years. This means reducing course requirements. Now that the tutorial system is acclaimed a success, to continue the extra burden of the full quota of courses is to dissipate the student's energies and hinder his most effective development...
...failure to see clearly is due partly to passion that blinds us often selfish, ignoble passion, impatience with those who oppose us, jealously, vindictiveness, fear, or avarice of wealth and fame. Sometimes the passion springs from better motives, a desire to help others unjustly treated, or eagerness for the success of a cause in whose righteousness we have faith I knew a man who made a rule when indignant to write a letter as strongly as he felt, then address if to himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning he had an impression...
With a large squad of promising candidates Coach R. P. Berle '19 of the debating team against Oxford is optimistic about the University's chances of success in the debate against the English speakers next fall. Coach Berle was in charge of the University team which defeated Oxford in Symphony Hall in the fall of 1922 and has on his squad for the debate this year one member of the victorious 1922 team and another speaker from the team...