Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University mermen should have no trouble tonight but their performance will give some indication of what may be expected of them during the rest of the season. In spite of the success which attended Harvard's first swimming team in many years, and the fact that, with two important exceptions, all of the veterans of that team are back this year, Coach Ulen has consistently refused to recognize any improvement in the outlook. Some of the men will be more experienced but, handicapped by the loss of W. S. DeLima '31 and Addison Love '33, it is doubtful...
...bear the burden of his own peccadillos with the tragic fact of his adored sister. While unfolding the subdued drama of this luckless pair the authoress availed herself of the abundant material for the creation of a literary atmosphere, and for the most part achieved a satisfying degree of success, leaving only to be desired a more penetrating (although not lengthier) portrayal of S. T. Coleridge, or at least an intimation of the quality of this poet's conversation...
...series of studies in business history, which are being edited by N. S. B. Gras, professor of Business History at the Business School. This work not only chronicles the scope of Astor's business career but brings out those elements of personality which led to his unprecedented success...
Considerable doubt was expressed as to whether the Plan would be a success or a dismal failure when the gift was first made public. There is a limit, it was argued, beyond which segregation ceases to serve its purpose. The cultivation of the individual less not consist merely of instilling practical and intellectual knowledge into him it consists of much more than that. The counting out of his personality by contact with the wide variety of his contemporaries for example, is also an object of any really worthy secondary school. It has always been the boast of Exeter that...
Thus, after a term of the conference system, the "Exonian" feels that this most recent "experiment in the pure theory of education" has so far proved itself a success and a great improvement over the old and inadequate recitation system. What Mr. Harkness has done in making possible cherished educational ideals carries his educational renovations down into the secondary years where they will no doubt have even greater influence in furthering the "intellectual renaissance," which is at present permeating the college world. Exeter is the leader of the new movement: It now remains for other schools to follow...