Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John J. Rowe '06, newly elected head of the Associated Harvard Clubs, told the committee that he would appoint the Alumni sponsors as soon as possible and that he was confident the campaign would be a success...
...brilliant success of the show the cast is mainly responsible. Their enthusiasm, their esprit de corps, their sense of comedy, all made the audience forget they didn't know Greek and have a grand time anyway watching some of the best horse-play this side of Broadway, a Sophic Tucker version of a Greek poem, an angel on roller-skates, a Heracles in striped pyjamas, and above all, Harvard as the Cloudcuckootown! Backing up the cast was an original musical score and masks, costumes, backdrops, done with skill and rare humor. Congratulations should also go to a gentleman named Aristophanes...
...still another group that knows that conferences come and students may go but arguments go on forever. This group represents the advance guard of any community. It knows that smoke, fire and noise can be something as useful as they are dangerous. It realizes that nothing embryonic is a success or failure. It knows that indifference has never won any battles and that debate is healthy as long as we have real problems...
...will deny them the success of their tactics. For Harvard has accepted this cancer as a part of itself, and the tutoring schools have become integrated with the system which exists here. The moral attitude toward them has so hardened that a majority of students fell ethically justified in using them. Harvard's collective conscience has almost completely disappeared in this respect; students regularly cheat and feel no qualms about so doing. Parents condone: one tutor recently boasted that his position was impregnable since he tutored the sons of the Corporation. And, more than this, the University administration and Faculty...
...Irish lass with Dublin in her heart and the London stage on her mind. The bright candle lights of success beckoned in the 18th century as strongly as today. Her name was not Lamarr but plan Woffington--just "Peg of Old Drury." Wrapped up in a brand new package of old English drama, Anna Neagle scales the heights of theatrical adoration and wins that greatest prize of all--a corner in the heart of immortal David Garrick. It is the old story of home town girl makes good. But it is fresh and appealing, steeped in the lore of England...