Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ready to be of some use outside of mere social pleasures, and to fill a place where it may do a great deal towards keeping up a manly and generous feeling upon all athletic matches. If the finances are started upon a sure basis the club cannot fail to succeed...
...their agreements" (in this matter,) said the Hamilton Campus, "are Harvard, Dartmouth and Hamilton. The prospect of an exciting and satisfactory contest being thus defeated by the withdrawal of Yale, Princeton and Williams, it has been thought best to indefinitely postpone the tournament." In fact, it did not succeed until some years later...
...point, do there not remain many questions to be asked and much information to be gained? What is it intended that this so-called university club shall be? If a custom of exclusion is to be practiced the result is that the club, however bright its promise, cannot succeed in meeting such a need as is said to exist. If the club on the other hand is to be simply a meeting place little less general than the yard, and every man who cares to do so can spend an hour at the club house with the hope of meeting...
Princeton men say that they could put a very strong nine in the field next spring if they can succeed in finding a good catcher. Brownlee, '89, who caught part of the season last year, is reported to have improved greatly and will probably catch again this year...
...labor, and a more concise and philosophical knowledge of history among Harvard men, if the very much desired system of History 13 could become universal in our history courses. If the men in History 13 prefer the other method, it will be only their own loss if they succeed in their present attempt. It can hardly be believed, however, that the instructor will change a good system for a bad one, simply because his students do not perceive the advantages of the present plan...