Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Gilman recently had a talk with the students on the outlook for athletics at Johns Hopkins. A committee of graduate and undergraduate students was appointed to take charge of the gymnasium until the appointment of a new director to succeed Dr. Hartwell and to represent the students in any differences that might arise...
...manly letter of farewell to his young wife, whose overdose of father and mother has brought about a senseless and cruel separation. Again Mr. Robson shows his versatility wins "the tribute of a falling tear." Throughout, his treatment of the grave question is characteristic; if he does not succeed in solving it, he at least makes a very entertaing and amusing attempt. There will be an extra matinee of this play on Christmas...
...bore to everyone, of apportioning each building to some one or two men is not being carried out; but instead, a great number of men have been chosen, each of whom is to see a small group of his friends. This way of getting money ought to succeed better than the ordinary way. Men have naturally become tired of having visitors armed with subscription papers appear at all manner of times at their rooms...
...cricket eleven shows a great improvement over the work of previous years. Not only were more games won and better scores made than in 1889, but the individual records were better, and there was less dependence upon the batting of one or two men. The team did not succeed in bringing the championship to Harvard, but came nearer than ever before. With an equal amount of improvement in next year's play, the eleven will stand more than an equal chance of ending the season as college champions. But next year will be a particularly hard one, on account...
...hundred points; instead the eleven played so weakly that during the last half Bowdoin had the ball in Harvard's territory the greater part of the time, and once when the play was at the twelve yard line it looked very much as though they would succeed in scoring. The score was kept down somewhat by the tactics of the visitors who played to keep the ball, and still more by the assistance which they received from the referee; but neither of these circumstances are sufficient to account for the fact that in spite of the fact that the playing...