Word: success
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entire history of the Prospect Union, from its earliest beginning to the present, has been such that its members and supporters feel justified in their confidence of success. But Harvard of today owes it to herself to be just as loyal and as steady in the Prospect Union work as she was in the days of its incipiency...
...grown in the last ten years, while that of Harvard has grown everywhere else. It is safe, I think, to say that most of the students who would probably be drawn to college by love for athletics rather than for scholarship come from the East. Whether the recent success of Yale in the field of athletics and of Harvard in the field of scholarship can explain the tendency here noticed will never, I suppose, be mathematically demonstrated...
...only remains for each subscriber to remember that he is the court of last resort, upon whose decision the success or failure of the Magazine depends. If this work be worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and if it approve itself to Harvard men as well done, surely none of them will grudge the cost. I have no doubt, therefore, that our expectations will be abundantly satisfied in the result...
...form of charity is one which, in a large college like Harvard, can be made particularly effective. A very little trouble in the matter will be a great service to the committee, and through them to a large number of needy persons. The committee were much encouraged by the success of their first collection this year, and are unquestionably safe in their belief that students will this time respond to the call even more generously than before...
...only feature to mar the complete success of the concert was that some freshmen on the top floor of Holworthy tried to show their appreciation of the music by deluging the members of the Banjo Club with water...