Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That some men may occasionally achieve greatness or success without the advantage of a college training is no proof that the average individual would succeed as well nor that the gifted person would not have accomplished still more if college-trained...
...singing at Harvard. The only way to prove that student singing in an open way is practical is to try it. There is a peculiar attraction to singing on masse which increases with time. Once started, the proposition will undeniably gather force. But to make this new enterprise a success strong leadership is requisite. Such a man as Doctor Davidson, were he able to devote his time to mass singing, would make it a very real and very vital thing at Harvard...
...Student Employment Office should lead men to think along the lines that make for success in business. It should teach men to realize that the employer who puts men on his payroll does so because it will be a profitable thing for the business in which the man goes. It is going to give the business in some small way a greater opportunity to be of service to the community...
...week, and found him a gentleman of dignity and opinions, tall, rawboned, looking somewhat like the preacher he used to be, and, at the moment I glimpsed him, very much interested in problems of the American Indian. He is always interested in problems. That is the secret of the success of his books. He knows how to preach, and he preaches well in fiction. His novels are primarily religious, although he might deny that fact. I rather think, however, that he wouldn...
...fervent thunderstorm and some native dancing. George Gaul is conspicuous as the native boy and gives a somewhat monotonous portrayal. None of the cast was overladen with ability or clothing, but they all performed very energetically. Aloma is just about bad enough and just sufficiently exciting to be a success...