Word: successful
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...Farnsworth might have done well to consider a previous propagandist for mental health, Sigmund Freud, who was seeking a half century ago to bring psychoanalysis out of the wilderness. His success was based upon three things: his ability to produce concrete results by curing patients, his ability to produce intellectual insights into hitherto baffling problems, and his clear, concrete and precise exposition. Dr. Farnsworth's volume has none of these merits...
...Success on 21 cm Band...
Strangely enough, Roosevelt did not stand out at Harvard in two areas of his later success--public speaking and writing. He got two of his worst grades in forensics, he never practiced debating, and he seldom wrote for publication...
Such a proposal, if accepted, would be a serious setback to the tutorial system and a sad commentary on the quality of Harvard teaching. Whatever success tutorial enjoys at present is due to the quality and relevance of the material studied and the knowledge and teaching skill of the tutor. Instituting graded tutorial would be an admission that the present supply of these assets is inadequate to produce the interest needed for a good tutorial session. Grades would indeed create a certain type of interest. But better instruction and teaching would create another, more desirable sort of interest. If departments...
Coach Jack Barnaby cited Wesleyan's lack of depth as the factor behind Harvard's 9 to 0 shutout last year, but added that even another whitewash job will not guarantee success against the Black Knights...