Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after all, it is the very least that can be done, to attempt to arouse intellectual interest and to stimulate it along channels amenable to its particular characteristics. The ninety-and nine failures on the part of the adviser will measure up small in comparison with the one success the one student who comes there interested in nothing at all, and quite able and willing, his visions opened, and his horizons broadened. And as to the freshmen who enter with genuine interests, they certainly should be given all the advice and encouragement that is possible." --First Report, Class...
Most political district leaders give such parties but staunch Tammany Tom Farley's are perhaps the most celebrated in Manhattan. The pre-eminent success of this particular Farley Fête, which produced more congratulatory editorials than Mr. Farley's fierce but successful fight to attain the leadership of his district, could be attributed largely to the admirable Linder. Jealous Republicans, who can give no such parties in Manhattan, scoffingly suggested that the fat boy would have been kept away from the party for fear of frightening the other guests, had it not been for the fact that...
Under the title "What possessions or acquisitions in college lead to success in after life" President Eliot enumerates...
...Album is being printed by the Andover Press, which has brought out many albums in the past and which recently achieved a signal typographical success with the 1931 Freshman Red Book. Engravings for the Album were done by the Wright Engraving Company, and the individual and group photographs were taken by Notman's Studio. The Senior Album Committee, in charge of the publication of the book, is composed of T. H. Eliot '28, C. R. Pforzheimer '28. A. M. Blackburn '28, R. T. Dunn '28, and H. W. Bragdon...
...volume life and letters of Walter H. Page, Wartime ambassador to England, were worthy best sellers. That a third volume should now appear, antedating the others in subject matter, suggests the frequent publishing ruse of selling a dull re-hash on the strength of the original success. Nothing of the sort is true in this case, partly because of Burton Hendrick's studied sense of the dramatic, mostly because of the essential fullness of Page's life before he ever thought of ambassadorship. From cub-reporter in St. Joseph, Mo., he rose rapidly to New York newspaperdom, managed and edited...