Word: successful
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Further, since the success of English A finally depends on the caliber of the section men in the course, we recommend careful consideration of Resolution 1 of Part 1 of last year's Freshman report in regard to the selection of these men. The resolution reads" "That section men be chosen with an eye towards teaching ability and personality rather than their scholastic records...
Credit for the discovery goes to Leslie C. Peltier, garage employee of Delphos, Ohio. One of the world's most distinguished amateur astronomers, Mr. Peltier hereby chalks up the fourth in his string of comet discoveries; his other most recent success was achieved...
...further trying to raise this scholastic standing, Mr. Conant has made plans to create numerous Prize Fellowships for outstanding, young students throughout the country. If the 300th Anniversary Fund is a success, there will be 100 Prize Fellows in each class, 400 in the College. If present standards are kept up, the large majority of these men will be in Group II or above. Their ranks will be swelled by many applicants for Prize Fellowships who are turned down but come to Harvard anyway. This year there are four times as many of such men as Prize Fellows. In other...
...blind, young Morris Frank. He wrote to Mrs. Eustis and she promptly invited him to visit her at Fortunate Fields. There he was trained to use a German shepherd named "Buddy." When he returned home he tested Buddy in congested traffic, enthusiastically cabled Mrs. Eustis that Buddy was a success, that she must come to the U. S. and start with his help a "philanthropic school" for training more dogs like Buddy. Next year the pair founded "The Seeing Eye" at Nashville. Three years ago it was moved to Morristown...
...have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and har lots." "A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal success." "A good writer should be so simple that he has no faults, only sins...