Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, hopeful of Rusher Heffelfinger's success at the polls, were his great and good Yale friends, Secretary of State Stimson (1888) and Republican House Leader Tilson (1891), who fondly recall that their college was founded for service "to Church and State...
...their curriculum upon obtaining a good record at these tests. Since low admission grades rank only third in the list of causes of poor standing in college, there are evidently other factors than that of proficiency at passing the entrance examinations to be considered in estimating a man's success after matriculation. Among these might be mentioned the familiar demand for greater correlation between the teaching methods of the school and the college so as to facilitate the transition. Such elements are only just beginning to be appreciated by the authorities of the secondary schools, and a further increase...
...Board will examine the complete records of all applicants for readmission and will demand of candidates the strongest assurance of future success. The passing of an approved course in the Harvard Summer School with an honor grade (A or B) may be considered as a reasonable basis for readmission and in general is regarded by the Administrative Board as the most satisfactory evidence of work done. The Harvard Summer School opens on July 8, 1929. In special cases steady employment of a different nature may be approved...
...three days, beginning Thursday, to celebrate its past. Its first half-century of life has brought it firm establishment, academic prestige second to none among the women's colleges and a widening circle of friends. But if the college finds satisfaction in these things, it also feels that its success has given it larger responsibilities for the future. That way its eyes are turned
...office, nor the position of his noted father-in-law, nor the decent requests of the less gossipy papers have modulated the stream of photographers and reporters who harass the Morrow home. Not even the air gives him sufficient freedom to run the blockade of prying printers with success...