Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requirements and standards. The result is that many institutions practically guarantee a degree to any student who can pay four years tuition. Thus students, who can pay the price, go to college because it is the thing to do, or because it seems to hold the key to financial success in later life, and they spend four aimless years wasting their own and the college's time...
...success of a democracy depends upon the education of its people. . . . By education I do not mean technical training. Nothing can ever replace the well rounded cultural education which alone can form the basis for a full life and sound political judgment. . . . America today is materially richer than any civilization has perhaps ever been, but we are spiritual paupers and no one can deny...
...make money, but that in no way diminishes its value. To cut enrollments, even in law school, would not only be unfair to those who can and want to have such an education but would hurt the profession as well. Who can tell beforehand who will be a success and who not? Such things are never measured in school. William Hinton...
...Advocate wishes to emphasize that money is not the sole benefit to be gained from working, since it offers valuable training which may lead to success later...
...McKhann and the other doctors whom he has persuaded to speak. It is not easy for a specialist to make himself clear to a lay audience, let alone make himself popular. It has called for laborious preparation as well as the sacrifice of a Sunday afternoon. Yet the success of the series is obvious from the number of late-comers who have to be turned away for want of space...