Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mere victory over Yale will not constitute such proof. The members of the club must show themselves able to conduct the debate with energy and with intelligent appreciation of its significance. The future of freshman debating will depend in large part upon the outcome of their efforts. If they succeed in proving the fears based upon their immaturity and inexperience to be groundless, the debate with Yale will probably be permanently established; if they fail, intercollegiate freshman debate will ipso facto be condemned...
...because of the publicity. The roughness, he said, never could be eliminated merely by the appointment of more officials. There must and would be cultivated in future, at least among Harvard players, a spirit opposed to slugging or unnecessary roughness of any sort. He was confident this plan would succeed. As for the publicity, that can be done away with by having the games only on home grounds or college grounds. Thus Harvard would play Yale one year at New Haven, and at Cambridge the next year. In this way college interest would never wane, and it is only...
...year at Yale - the Junior Promenade. The class germans, receptions and other festivities of the week begin on Monday and end with the Junior Prom., on Wednesday night. The '96 committee have exerted themselves to out-do their predecessors and it is safe to predict that they will succeed. A commendable change is the initiative taken by the committee in checking the tendency toward extravagance. The marked reduction in the price of boxes and the lowering of other expenses stand as a precedent that will doubtless be followed in the future...
...audiences at evening lectures and readings are necessarily limited to members of the University and the Cambridge public. Vespers and the glass flowers are at present the only attractions for other friends of the University. It is to be hoped that those who have this matter in hand will succeed in their efforts to provide at Harvard a course of lectures such as is already established at many of the larger colleges and universities...
...Higginson, and Mr. Samuel Hoar. The Overseers who have been elected to hold office until 1900 are Augustus Hemenway, Charles Beaman, Samuel A. Green, William Lawrence, D. D., and Francis C. Lowell. In the list of University Preachers, J. Estlin Carpenter and Phillip S. Moxom have been appointed to succeed Washington Gladden, D. D., and Leighton Parks...