Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...director of the Harvard University Press, and Harold Murdock, vice-president of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, has been chosen by the Corporation to be his successor Mr. Lane has been actively connected with the work since 1908, when he was appointed Publication Agent of the University to succeed the late John B. Williams '77, upon the death of the latter. At that time the printing was done in a small room in University Hall, but was expanded in 1913, and became the University Press, with Mr. Lane as its first director. Three and a half years later...
...direct challenge to civilization and the culture which gives civilization its living spirit than the destruction of the University of Louvain. This deed of the Germans was likened by Cardinal Mercier to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Our generation and the countless once to come can never succeed in making it what it was; all any of us can do is to make some effort towards restoring, if only to a small degree, the glory of its past. With the appointment of an Executive Committee, whose headquarters will be J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, a nation-wide...
...running high jump. Dartmouth's best pole-vaulter, E. E. Myers, cleared the bar at 12 feet, 6 inches, three inches better than Newsletter of Pennsylvania, but was too exhausted when he tried for the world's record with the bar placed at 13 feet, 3 inches, to succeed in clearing...
...they are to understand, they, must be spoken to in their own language of blood and iron. They must realize completely that Germany and Kultur have both been defeated, and can never succeed. Then there will come a time for instruction in the language of civilization and humanity--not before...
There is one class of men, however, to whom the Phi Beta Kappa key is an incomparable distinction. That is the typo of man who goes out for some undergraduate activity other than pure studies, yet who succeeds in doing excellent work in his lessons. To these men, the Phi Beta Kappa means most. Not merely scholars, not purely athletes, not men whose only achievements have been in literary or social fields, these are the most "all-around" men of the University. He who can succeed at work as well as at play merits the highest approval of his fellow...