Word: success
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...England Championships Athletic Meeting, held in the South Armory on Saturday evening, was in every way a success. The events were run off with commendable smoothness and were finished ahead of the scheduled time. The showing made by the Harvard athletes was encouraging, particularly in the hurdles and distance runs...
...newcomers to the University who have allied themselves with the association is small, and altogether out of proportin with a natural increase in this branch of athletics. And again, the winter meetings threaten to be little better than a failure. There are not at present sufficient entries to ensure success, and there seems to be no promise of a sufficient number...
...seems to us that this is not at all as it should be. In the first place, the Mott Haven team deserves better of the University. It has been the one form of athletic contests in which Harvard has, of late, met Yale with a great degree of success. Success has not come easily: it has been the result of hard thought, hard training, and great effort. Success, moreover, has not been of slight moment: the games are widely recognized as one of the chief tests of athletic superiority among the universities. Appreciation of honest effort and well-won success...
...university council was thus made possible which should be representative of the whole body of educators in the university. This form of organization, with its representative university council and its many faculties, has abundantly justified all the hopes entertained for its success...
...await its different events. The more change there is, the less well-known will be the institution. Where interest is small, it must be concentrated: if diffused, it will not make itself felt at all. A certain amount of interest, quite sufficient to make Yale debates a success, would probably be much weakened if divided between Yale and Princeton debates. Princeton debates may come in time, but the needs of the present are for one chief rival and one only...