Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ruined by the idea that he can take care of himself, that he will mind his own business if others will mind theirs. The whole system of Christian ethics depends on the idea that the body should be kept pure, as God made it. The men who succeed in life are those who live according to this rule. The worst of it is that the affectionate, poetical, generous men of genius are apt to be those who cannot resist temptation...
...Herford will conduct prayers for the last time this term today. Dr. Lyman Abbott will succeed...
...nature which, in a University like Harvard, is bound to have the most telling effect. Not, however, in the college alone has the work been carried on; the members have been seeking outside for chances to carry out the purposes of the Association. That the society should succeed, when the members show such an earnestness in the phase of work which they represent, is not strange. And it is a matter of congratulation that Harvard has this set of men who have followed out so well the work that has been set before them...
...that they have a vast amount of work to do if they hope to make a respectable record. Their work in so unimportant a game as that of yesterday can hardly be taken as a fair estimate of what they can do; but it at least indicates that to succeed they must put far more zeal into their work. The listless way in which they played out the game was anything but encouraging...
...Thatcher's Minstrels are trying to be original this week at the Boston; they fail, as most people who try to be original do, but they succeed in amusing and pleasing their audiences every night. Hoyt's "Midnight Bell" with Mr. McGlenens' benefit on Monday night is announced for next week...