Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...willing to help provide one, the graduates will to the larger rest....Let us drive the key-bolt home while it is sparkling fire!" This is the spirit of the appeal and it is addressed primarily to the undergraduate body. Will it meet with a response? Will it accomplish its purpose...
...plot of the play turns upon the desire of Bergamin to marry his son Percinet to Sylvette, the daughter of his neighbor Pasquinot. In order to accomplish this the fathers separate their children that they may love each other the more, and strive to be re-united. As a part of the ruse, Bergamin abducts Sylvette, Percinet rescues her, discovers the fraud, and goes into exile. Straforel then kidnaps Sylvette in earnest, in order to drive the romantic nonsense from her head. Percinet returns from exile, finds Sylvette, and the two lovers are reconciled...
After this he made the supposition that England and Germany were at war, pointing out how little would be accomplished thereby, and how difficult it would be to accomplish that little...
...there does not seem to be enough interest among the men in the class to come out in sufficient numbers to make up even two teams. Furthermore, many of those who have come out do not report regularly for practice, which makes it almost impossible to accomplish any results in developing a team...
...meet and discuss questions of public or college interest. Five such groups, with a total membership of about 85, grew up during the year and held informal discussions, to which the Council stood ready to send critics. Because of the informality of the whole system, however, it did not accomplish very much...