Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 11. For us the event will mark the commencement of two long days of final examinations in the main unit of work, and we hope that participation in the ceremony two weeks ahead of actual graduation will have at least one beneficial result in inspiring us to greater success immediately thereafter...
...early success was "Tom Thumb," given in 1854, in which Phillips Brooks took the part of the huge princess Glumdalka. Musical burlesques with piano accompaniment were later included in the repertoire, and the first full-fledged operetta was produced in 1882--"Dido and Aeneas." This work, based on the "Aeneid," a work which all the undergraduates had to know cold in those days, included both original and borrowed music and went as far afield as Philadelphia. In 1918, the first show on the modern, grand scale was produced--"Barnum Was Right." The author was Robert E. Sherwood...
...these attacks, the one in the center seemed last week to have the greatest likelihood of early success. The Germans in their mountain positions elsewhere were set for siege. They had dug in for months. But in the center, the First was edging on to the plain of Tunis. If the hills beside it could be cleared-and some of them were cleared last week-then the Allies could eventually sweep to Tunis, divide or further compress the defenders, and drive the remnants into...
...Sixth day. . . . We tried to start an oil smudge fire for the rescue party which was out trying to find a possible way to get over the glacier and up on the icecap to us. . . . The oil is like tar. . . . Rescue party has little success...
...each man could be limited as to the number of classes he might attend and no class would have more visitors than it could easily accomodate in unused seats. Nor would the fact that lectures are pointed at men who have previous knowledge of the context necessarily hamper the success of the plan. Experience with the Nieman fellows and other graduate students, chronic samplers of Harvard teaching, has shown that no professor has to alter his lecture or make any introductory remarks before addressing an interested outsider...