Word: succession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra will give the fifth of its series of concerts at the University Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, in Sanders Theatre. Miss Ethel Leginska, one of the best-known of the younger pianists, will be the soloist. She has had very great success in her recitals in Boston, but has only once before played with an orchestra. Miss Leginska will render a concerto for piano and orchestra by Liapounoff, a new Russian composer of whom little is known...
Inasmuch as aspirants for the news staff will be required to cover the various University activities and to obtain outside news of legitimate interest, the training received will be a valuable aid to any who contemplate journalistic careers. Success in the business competition will depend on the number of advertisements secured and the amount of office work done: while editorial candidates will be asked to write regularly on subjects concerned with the University, the war and problems of general interest...
...from political prejudice do we try to discover faults, but the benefit by their elimination. At the same time, however, dissatisfaction over one subject causes un-intentional blindness to the merits of others, as we are silently contented to make few comments on beneficent results, or because a steady success attracts only casual attention, we over-emphasize the mistakes. There do exist, nevertheless, numerous causes for satisfaction, which deserve favorable criticism no less than others deserve unfavorable...
...beyond its experimental stage years ago. It has become an established procedure, to which our undergraduates have given a loyal adherence--not reluctantly, nor sullenly, but in a spirit of pride and enthusiasm; for this is particularly their system--they conceived it and put it into practice. That the success of the enterprise started 25 years ago is due wholly to the fact that the idea originated within the undergraduate body, spontaneously, irresistibly. Their desire, their determination, rein-forced by succeeding generations of college men, has caused the idea to become an unquestioned success, not only in the primary sphere...
...authorities at Washington be ignorant of this fact. Not only do they show as much skill in fighting, but they also are less likely than older recruits to have dependents. Comparatively few have progressed so far in business or in any profession that their prospects of future success are seriously diminished. By enrolling men as they come of age the War Department will always have within easy reach a large number of recruits well fitted for military service. Since we are no yet in that serious condition which forces our allies to conscript everyone capable of bearing arms, we hesitate...