Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...series have too long been regarded as a joke--at any rate that is the most charitable explanation of unfair tactics which have frequently appeared among the players as well as the spectators. This year the captains are doing their best to insure fair contests, but they will not succeed unless the supporters of the teams refrain from taking a hand in the game. The winners of the series are awarded numerals--a distinction which should carry sufficient weight to check any sympathetic playing by the crowd...
...efforts to them, than to attempt, at the eleventh hour, songs which are failures in the Union, and which would certainly fall flat if tried in the Stadium. One song alone was acceptable, with the exception of those written to tunes which are college classics, and these will only succeed if the words are memorized by frequent practice. We also suggest that superfluous introductions be omitted in old songs as well as new. They rarely add to the effect, and in many cases serve only to confuse the singers and make the opening lines ragged...
...explanation. The men of the University are the ultimate judges of the best songs. But when two of 42 songs are tried, there is small opportunity for comparison and trial. A song has been known to be very successfully used when the Committee thought it the least likely to succeed of those selected for trial...
Professor Paul Clemen, Ph.D., of Bonn University, has been appointed in accordance with the standing agreement between the University and the Cultusministerium of the German Government, as representative of Germany at the University for the next college year, to succeed Professor Eugen Kuehnemann of Bonn, in the third year of the international exchange. The subjects of his courses will be announced later...
...crew squad. They were met at the New London wharf by the launch "John Harvard" and came directly to the quarters. Tomorrow morning the crews will go out shortly after 11 o'clock. A. G. Gill 1L., who accompanied the squad as assistant coach and supervisor was appointed to succeed E. Farley '07, who resigned last week on account of his position in the University boat. Gill rowed on the University four last year and the year before and on the 1906 Freshman eight...