Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparison of the two plans not only shows their fundamental differences, but makes more evident the direction in which Harvard is going. That the plan aims to directly make the individual a more real part of Harvard is apparent. Whether or not it can do this, whether it can accomplish its end, depends on its ability to steer clear of provincialism, and, a what is equally important, at the same time to avoid encroachments on the freedom of the individual in the last analysis, the successful practice of the theory rests in a great degree on the personnel...
...classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might choose to accomplish thirty minutes of daylight saving before next autumn...
...these men expect to accomplish anything, they have before them a difficult task. Free education to all is admittedly a commendable idea, but the present method of carrying it out is of dubious merit. Formulated by men of democratic principles, the present system is an example of democracy carried too far. Proceeding on the assumption that all men are created equal, and should therefore receive equal doses of education, the founders of American public schools are necessarily constrained to keep scholastic standards down to the level of the lowly, but unfortunately ample, ranks of the barren-witted...
They asked him why the Federal Farm Board had been so slow in extending to farmers the $500,000,000 credit at its disposal. Chairman Legge replied: "It took Congress eight years to pass farm legislation. The Board should be given a little more than two months to accomplish what is expected...
...early one morning last week. She stroked away westward. All that day she swam, all that night. She was lost for hours from accompanying boats. On she swam. The next evening she reached Geneva, 37¼ miles from her starting place. She is the only person ever known to accomplish the feat. Last year fat Georges Michel, channel-swimming French baker, attempted it, had to give...