Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of years an attempt like this has been made to raise the Institute from the position of too dignified ease in which it stands, but all have failed. It is to be hoped that this effort to make it something more than a name and a library will succeed, as there is at present no real sophomore club in college...
...second paper, read by Mr. H. McCulloch, was "An Historical Study of the French Ballade." It contained short treatises on the different famous writers of the ballad. The speaker said that many writers of this class of poetry have failed to succeed because of the heaviness of their work. In fact lightness and vivacity are almost indispensable to popularity in ballad writing...
...distance in 17 2-5 seconds, 1-5 of a second better than the Harvard record. In the mile run G. Lowell, '92, tied the Harvard record of 4m., 38 3 5 sec. R. H. Davis, '91, tried to break the 2 mile bicycle record, but did not succeed, owing to the wind and to poor pacing; his time was 6.04 1-5, five seconds slower than the Harvard record...
...much a matter of luck as many would suppose. In business as in every other vocation, there is plenty of room at the top, but to reach the top it is absolutely necessary for a young man to deny himself in many ways. The young man who wishes to succeed in business cannot keep late hours or indulge in any kind of dissipations for headaches in the morning are not conducive to business ability...
...court, but in what is termed "non-contentious business" -such as drawing up wills and other documents, looking after estates, collecting money, etc. For even more than crime and immorality are defects of memory and imperfections of language the causes of lawyer's business. For a lawyer to succeed, many qualifications are necessary. First of all come industry and patience. Law is not an easy mistress and he soonest learns her smile who reads incessantly and carefully, and at the same time brings to his reading a thoughtful mind and a habit of discrimination. Then, too, in addressing the jury...