Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...recent investigation made by the editor of the Bulletin throws new and valuable light on the relation of marks in College to success in after life. Dean Briggs, Dean Wells, and Professor F. E. Farrington '94 each submitted a list of men in the class of '94 whom they considered successful. Twenty-three men were on all three lists. The college records of there were looked up and compared with those of the same number of members of the class taken at random. The "successful" men were found to have obtained in examinations...
Such statistics as these, especially when strengthened by the investigation made by President Lowell last year to ascertain the connection between College and Law School marks, hardly bear out the "undergraduate hallucination which assumes an entire absence of any connection between examination grades and post-collegiate success." The man who takes the view that studies are all that are worth while at College is doubtless narrow-minded, but, on the other hand, the man who fails to recognize the direct relation of studies to general capacity and effectiveness in after life is no less short-sighted...
...ministry does not necessarily mean a change in policy, and, what is equally important, many of the same ministers are retained. France lays very little responsibility on parties, but insists only that they do their work well. Another reason that the two-party system would not be a success in France is the great centralization of the Franch government. The Minister of Justice alone has the power to make 8000 appointments and if there were one dominant party, that party would be a virtual despot. The committee system acts as a check on the enormous powers of the French Minister...
...Brigham '12 was the next speaker. The question is not whether parliamentary government is a complete success, but whether it is not the best government which France could have. The present government works better than is generally believed...
...arrangements for allotting rooms which proved so popular a year ago, and which will be largely adhered to by 1912, owed their success primarily to allowing large groups of men to apply for rooms together. This provision enabled congenial men to any number up to 14, to live together, making their Senior year by far the most pleasant, and leaving the Yard in their memories as the scene of what was most enjoyable in their life as undergraduates. If the enthusiasm of 1911 combined with the feelings of the Seniors now in the Yard form a basis of prediction...