Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard were to adopt the universal undergraduate athletic levy it would not be a new experiment, since Yale and Dartmouth have used it with success. At Dartmouth the plan works excellently, since over three-quarters of the students use the gymnasium and other athletic buildings. Because they are paying for them in any case, the students are more apt to take advantage of the buildings and thus derive benefit from physical activity...
Then why not yet in Harvard? Well, I've tried enough. I've tried to lure your professors into telling you falsehoods; I've tried to lure your administrators into oppressing you; I've tried to break down intelligence through weakness of character, and goodness through stupidity. All without success. You, O Men of Harvard, have remained intelligent, rich, and happy, the combination invincible. You live in a heaven Utopists have been dreaming about for centuries, companionship, games, regular, plentiful food and drink, clean, spacious housing, music everywhere you wish, no particular work, plenty of leisure for the pursuit...
...purpose is in the main twofold:- to interest the students in the work of the course and to develop in each of them a sound English style. To achieve either or both of these aims, no aspect of the Crimson's claborate program is necessary. The success of the first depends upon the individual section man. The achievement of the second rests not so much upon the adoption of a rigid program as upon the helpful criticisms of the instructors. By assigning topics on the basis of your reports, the Crimson is overlooking the fact that the assignment of topics...
...regions, New York City has most actors, most trouble. Originally in charge of the region was Elmer Rice, who wrote Street Scene in 1928. Failing to repeat that phenomenal success, Mr. Rice has become "progressively disenchanted" with the theatre. It was his idea that out of the piteous plight of his down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect...
...unsuccessful months trying to sell Mack trucks, Farson and his bride went off to live in a shack on Vancouver Island, stayed there two years. Then he went back to Mack Truck Co., did so well he was made Chicago sales manager. No sooner had he made a resounding success than he chucked the job, went to Victor Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, told him his idea. The idea: to sail across Europe from the North to the Black...