Word: prove
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...graduates' performance of the "Counterfeiter," the Pi Eta Society's new comic opera, was given last evening at the club theatre before an enthusiastic audience. The play went off with little hesitation, and, with more smoothness in the acting of the principal characters, should prove extremely successful. The characters are well conceived, and in general take advantage of many laughable situations. C. P. Whorf '05, who wrote the book and many of the lyrics, acted most naturally of any of the principals, and put a great deal of spirit and humor into his songs. T. A. Whidden '05, as Inspector...
...sixty-cent dinner has lately been instituted and seems to have met with the approbation of all the men using the restaurant, and although it is rather early to make any definite statement, there is no reason why it should prove any greater expense to the Union than the seventy-five-cent dinner. In the case of the restaurant it must be borne in mind that the question is merely how little the loss can be made...
...University, so that those figures, which at first sight might seem to point to a loss in business, in reality have no such significance. In fact, the Co-operative Society has so far this year done a large business, and it is expected that the year will prove unusually successful...
...tendency of American colleges, beginning with the University of Indiana in 1888, and ending with Princeton in 1905, has been away from the free elective system. There is no demand or necessity for the system, which would indeed, owing to the varying conditions existing in our colleges, prove in many cases impracticable and unsatisfactory...
Other systems of college education may strive in various ways to accomplish these ends and may be partly successful, but in the free elective system alone do we find in all its purity, and at its very best, the atmosphere of responsible freedom which I have tried to prove to you supremely essential to the growth of aggressive scholarship, broad views and vigorous manhood...