Word: success
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...accepting the proposal to move their afternoon Class Day exercises. At the start the proposal was opposed by many and strongly advocated by none, but slowly the feeling gained ground that the move was not an arbitrary demand of the Corporation, but one made by men who have the success of Harvard Class Days most at heart, and who wish to force their convictions on no one. Then the disadvantages of the former location became more and more apparent to an increasing number of Seniors, and while still clinging to every possibility of retaining the exercises of past years...
...speaking of Dickens this evening-in Sever 11, at eight o'clock-Mr. Copeland will discuss his power of improvisation, his success in humor, his failure in pathos, and his keenness of observation, with the curious use to which it was put by his imagination in the portrayal of persons and places. A part of the hour will be given to Dickens's great humorous characters, notably Mrs. Gamp, Dick Swiveller, and Sam Weller...
Entirely optional subscriptions are inevitably hard to start even when they call for small contributions, since the individual donation seems to play so unimportant a part in the final whole. The success of such subscriptions naturally lies with the spirit of the community in which they are started. Whether the present subscription for cups to be given to the '97 'Varsity nine is a failure or a success thus rests with the undergraduates. To us it seems that the permanent recognition of winning teams by prizes coming from the fellows themselves is an extremely good precedent to establish. We therefore...
...unsuccessful candidates who spoke last evening, the least we can do is to thank them heartily for their work in helping to develop the question, and make a new system of trial what the judges are agreed it has proved, a success...
Entries for the scrub baseball series close tomorrow evening, and as yet but two nines have signified their intention of taking part. We can scarcely believe that after the success of last year's competition the coming series will be such a dead failure as this seems to forbode. Possibly there is some delay among teams intending to enter, or some misunderstanding as to the date when entries are closed. We sincerely hope that there is some such explanation for this seeming lack of interest. The scrub games were so generally appreciated last year, and proved such an excellent introduction...