Word: success
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...does not work, but we know that Christ's law is a success. For are not the very qualities which we honor and emulate in Phillips Brooks and Abraham Lincoln and all noble men, their forgetfulness of self? If, then, we know what the highest is, let us as educated men strive to obtain it, and give to politics and to society the healthful influence of our training and our learning. Let us devote ourselves, that we may save ourselves...
Indoor tennis is proving a great success at the University of Chicago...
...requested to call attention once more to the Sunday evening theatre services, and the great help that Harvard men can give by leading in the singing there. These services are meeting with even greater success than they did last year, and the attendance has been encouraging in every way. There is still a pressing need of volunteers to take part in the singing and help in other directions. It is a very philanthropic object, and the success of these services would surely repay any little work that one can do for them...
...last of all the foundations. Even today we do much the same thing. We build our lofty ideal castles in the air, and then the task confronts us of adding to them the foundations which shall make them materialize. Those who can do this are those who achieve success. And it is a hard task. We belong to two worlds, the real and the ideal, and each has its share in our lives. All things have birth in the former; but they must gain their full development in the latter before they become of value to mankind...
...will be particularly interesting to compare these figures with those which will be published in the first report of the new graduate manager and treasurer. They will afford thus an opportunity of judging to what extent the new scheme of management has been a success in reducing the expenses, not only as a whole but in each particular department. There is doubtless a considerable waste of money at present as shown by the total expenditures, which are extravagant in many details...