Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matches were closely contested throughout, as is shown by the fact that three of the five continued for the full five games. The success of the Harvard Club's team was evidently due to the fact that they are now in the full swing of the season and in the peak of condition, while the University racquet-men plainly showed that they have not yet worked themselves up to their former form...
...initiative in producing new and untried plays. The chief fault of most college theatricals is that they have a tendency to produces a play that has gained reputation on a professional stage. Trusting on the name of the play, rather than their own Individual presentation to assure them of success," declared Michael Gold the author of "Fiesta", the Dramatic Club's fall production as he turned away from a group congratulating his latest contribution to the dramatic world to give a short interview to a CRIMSON reporter...
...could invent the lightning rod and bifocal spectacles, establish a Philosophical Society and the first fire insurance company in America, win success as a diplomat and found the Saturday Evening Post two hundred years ago, would probably be broad minded enough not to be surprised at the most advanced developments of our scientific age. All these achievements are claimed for Benjamin Franklin by the descendant of his periodical in its 200th anniversary number. But it is probable that even he would have been incredulous if he had been told that in the twentieth century his immortality would depend...
...recent observations, it was announced late last night by Professor Harlow-Shapley, director of the Observatory. The observations were undertaken by the Observatory staff in the effort to gather definite information regarding stars, hitherto only slightly known, and their findings have not hitherto been published anywhere. The remarkable success of the observations is largely due to the unusual visibility afforded by the Observatory's 18-foot Coude telescope...
...news that Economics A will not adopt the Reading Period this year, while it applies to but one course in a large field, is good evidence of the fact that at least one danger threatening the success of the experiment has been avoided. A year ago the college was awaiting with considerable trepidation the coming of a first Reading Period that was known to it only by official statements and formidable reading lists. The results in those courses adopting it, however, were so gratifying that converts to the plan flocked in as one non-scientific department after another took...