Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years the attempts of the College Entrance Examination Board to devise more accurate tests of ability for college candidates have met with considerable success, as the popularity of the New Entrance Plan and the Scholastic Aptitude Test indicate. The tendency has been away from the pedantic checking-up of mere factual knowledge, in favor of emphasis on the fundamental qualities which it is the function of colleges to develop...
...annual clothing drive conducted by Phillips Brooks House has been a big success this year. The amount and variety of the clothing has far exceeded that of any other year, and much of it has already been distributed to the needy...
...reason for the success of this year's drive is very largely due to the improved organization of the drive. In former years there has not been one person definitely responsible for each entry in each hall, but his year one person was put in charge of the whole drive and he was made responsible for seeing that a definite collector was responsible for each entry and that that collector was interested in making the clothing drive a success. The result was most gratifying, as can easily be seen by the fact that enough clothing was collected to help several...
...last it had to be abandoned. After a time the students showed signs of becoming tired of what they called "eating around", and the University offered to build a dining hall on Mt. Auburn Street if enough of them would agree to take their meals there to insure its success; but the signatures needed could not be obtained. Meanwhile some of the undergraduates formed eating clubs, and meals were more generally served in the existing social clubs, while other men were supplied by increasing the service at the Harvard Union...
...Union dining room has also contributed to the success of the present system. Although extremely large, and rather noisy it offers the opportunity for the whole class to meet together and to talk after the meal in any of the countless rooms of the building. All the facilities of the old Union have been turned over to the exclusive use of the Freshmen...