Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston ought to be more united than the graduates of any other college, and ought to express their opinions freely, and without prejudice, on all matters connected with their AlmaMater. They certainly ought to come together at least once a year, and then, even if they were unable to accomplish anything, they would not appear to have forgotten that they once attended Harvard University...
...proof of this. We cannot find anything to complain of in the condition of the society at present; it is on a firm financial basis, and carried on a larger scale than any other college co-operative institution. The most satisfactory feature of the society is that it does accomplish its purpose and furnishes the college a long list of the most necessary articles at a very much reduced price. If the present management keeps up the methods now employed, we look forward to a long period of increasing usefulness for the Co-operative Society...
...present plan is well enough as it is. The method which has been in vogue during past years needs no change, and it is only necessary to do away with a certain amount of red-tape in order to accomplish just what is proposed for those men to whom the change would apply most strictly. Men can now, if they please, finish work in three years or even three and a half years,- in which case they must wait for their degree until Commencement, which is no great misfortune,- and moreover they can, by proper management of courses...
...unturned up to the moment of the contest. Theories are at best merely in the air; it is hard work which is the whole matter. Graduates have said this and undergraduates have felt it, but until lately the inertness of men has made it impossible for a coach to accomplish what he desired, and Harvard has been beaten...
...formidable. It looked at times as though the driving rushes of Hotchkiss, Bigelow and Nelson, supplemented by the good work of Street back of the line, would enable Williams to score. This was evidently the ambition of the visitors, and they wore themselves out in a vain endeavor to accomplish it during the first half of the game. In the second half, when they had lost Ennis on account of an injury and Hotchkiss because of a rough play, their line seemed discouraged and tired out; they played a hard plucky game throughout, however, and gave Harvard the best game...