Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for clarifying the issues involved in a union of churches. The Edinburgh Conference "didn't get much done." More success could be achieved by "saying our prayers together" than by debates around the conference table. Dean Sperry pointed toward the drift toward unity in this country as a hopeful sign of the eventual success of the movement...
Rumors that the C. I. O. will attempt to organize the rest of Harvard's employees, following the A. F. of L's success with the dining hall staff, appear to be groundless. The consensus of opinion among the janitors and sweepers is that a union would not be of much use in the University...
...forceful arguments against this procedure. First, only about $40,000 will be available yearly as the interest income on the bequest, and this is a very small sum on which to operate a graduate school, much less to construct buildings. Second, graduate schools of journalism have not proved eminently successful in the past. The two chief schools at present, at Columbia and Missouri, doubtless produce capable men, but there is some question as to whether such men are sought after for newspaper jobs. Editors, it seems, still like to train their own men to fit their peculiar standards. For these...
...rich today, poor tomorrow; we are popular today and the world cries for our heads tomorrow. Sooner or later to every man, like all great religious experiences. comes some provocative occasion that requires his soul. The outward standards of success are so glamorous that a man can be horribly humiliated unless he lives up to them. But every man in his home and within can be a real...
...said that tickets would be for sale all this week at a desk in the lobby of the Union. Although admitting that only 15 had been sold so far, he expressed the belief that "any dance event involving such great numbers of students could not help but be a success...