Word: success
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...heartily glad of the chance to enter into competition with Harvard. Harvard's representatives will meet men skilled in debate by long practice like their own. If they win, their victory will be cause for just pride to the whole University. We wish them the greatest possible success...
...plan of a single meeting is to be tested this year for the first time, and there seems no reason why it should not meet with entire success. There is ample material in the college to give one very good gymnastic exhibition, and that one is promised for the coming Saturday. Students will not now have the excuse of outdoor attractions which keep them away. They should give the association generous support in its effort to preserve the winter meeting...
...believe that this change in policy will prove a great benefit to Harvard's rowing interests. A spirit of reluctant acquiescence in a policy of secrecy might in time be cultivated, but would never lead to that whole-hearted support of a crew which is almost essential to its success...
Harvard has long been endeavoring to make some improvement over this state of affairs, but, it must be admitted, without great success. Each year there are thrust upon the English department from three to four hundred students who are sadly incapable of writing their own language well. With this mass of unformed material to develop, the wonder is not that much of the undergraduate English remains unsatisfactory, but rather that any of it is ever really satisfactory. It is to be hoped that the preparatory schools will before long come to the aid of the college, and build...
...Powers, as the central figure of such well-known names as Frederic Robinson, R. F. Cotton, George Backus, Helen Kinnaird, Rachel Booth, W. R. Shirley, Charles Greene, Ella Gardiner and James Cody, will commence an engagement at the Columbia tonight, presenting here for the first time this pronounced comedy success, "The New Boy." "The New Boy" is a comedy in three acts by Arthur Law of London, and the author has reached the very climax of farcical effect. It was first produced in London nearly two years ago and is still being presented at the Vaudeville, Theatre, where...