Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...welcomed and given its full weight. The object of the meeting in the Fogg Museum tomorrow night, is not to carry any scheme through on a wave of popular enthusiasm. Mass meetings are often used for such purposes and it is doubtful whether in some cases they do not accomplish more harm than good...
...University Club seems to be the only means by which the rapidly growing interests of Harvard can be consolidated. The graduates need only be convinced of this in order to accomplish the project. A mass meeting has been chosen as the best means of demonstrating the feeling at Harvard in regard to this club and what it means to the undergraduates. Every undergraduate, therefore, should feel it his duty to be present at the mass meeting tomorrow night...
...Senior class of each particular year. Each class as it reaches this responsibility attacks the problems it must meet to the very best of its ability, but its time is so short that just as it has learned something by experience and is in a position to accomplish something, graduation puts an abrupt end to its opportunity. Next fall another equally green set takes charge. Thus there can never be any real continuity of purpose. With such a complete change of personality every year, gradual, careful construction of a system in athletics or in any thing else...
...meetings last night of the Graduate Club and the Natural History Society, are fair examples of a very active phase of University life. Side by side with the actual working departments of instruction there exist clubs of good standing which accomplish practical results by extending the work of the scholar and invest the subject matter with a social atmosphere which renders it doubly attractive...
...coaching has been nearly all in the line of destructive criticism and naturally the debaters have had no easy task to accomplish. They have, however, worked faithfully and hard and should be in the best possible form when they meet Harvard on Friday evening...