Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...begins to revolve rapidly. You follow your natural instinct and keep your feet moving so as to counteract the motion of the log. It requires skilful timing of your movements, but your whole energies are bent upon the task before you, and at last, to your infinite satisfaction, you succeed in making the enemy come to rest. You are very much relieved and considerably set up at the success of your stratagem. You feel that you have shown a deep knowledge of cause and effect in nature. You smile complacently at your friends on shore who are breathlessly watching...
...Corporation has been so successful in divining the unexpressed wishes of the Crimson that the appointment of a Trinitarian to succeed Dr. Peabody has preceded our own editorial urging such a course...
...LOWELL, '83, has resigned the Secretaryship of the H. A. A. The Executive Committee elected Mr. Morison to succeed him, and appointed Mr. Lowell steward...
...were fixed for the first three Saturdays in March. Posters with a list of events will soon be put up. This early action on the part of the Association is very commendable, and it will give men plenty of time to train for the meetings. Those who desire to succeed should begin at once, if they have not already done so, for the number of men who regularly attend the Gymnasium has largely increased this year, and the improvement which they have made bids fair to render the coming meetings the most successful that have ever been held here...
...plan was discussed last year, and met with favor among those who gave it their attention. The students of both Harvard and Yale take much more interest in contests between their colleges than in those with other colleges, and it is to be hoped that our Athletic Association may succeed in inaugurating the first Annual Meeting this year. The meetings would be held one year at Cambridge and the next at New Haven, thus giving members of both a fair opportunity of seeing the sports, and of reaping the financial benefit that would inevitably attend them. They would also offer...