Word: success
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips was a graduate student from Nebraska. He had come to study philosophy under Harvard's "greats"-Santayana, Josiah Royee, William James-and he started the book shelf merely to help cover his expenses. It was a success, and in two years was bringing him $1000 beyond his living expenses. Phillips neglected his graduate studies-he didn't receive his Master's degree until 1928-and moved to a store...
...Willson who leaned back in his seat throughout, directing both the onstage and pit choruses. The stage being very small, he found it necessary to keep a majority of the dragoons and rapturous maidens seated in the pit. The idea was a great success. It not only left the stage uncluttered, but it provided the necessary volume for the chorus parts...
Harvard's losing team of Lloyd Kratz '50 and Robert A. Walker '50 noted the success of such government-controlled projects as the TVA and claimed that nationalization would substitute the "public interest" for the present "financial oligarchy...
Last year Harvard ranked second in the intercollegiate squash league while Yale and Princeton, the only teams that defeated the Crimson, sandwiched the local team on the squash ladder. The team's success in recent years is due largely to the guiding hand of coach Barnaby, who has followed a two point program for building bigger and better squash teams...
These statements came as a "surprise" to John W. Holt, director of the Student Employment Office. He said he has had little success in finding students hotel employment, although he has been able to offer one or two-night jobs once in a while...