Word: success
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...committee of the Interscholastic Athletic Association informs us that Phillips Exeter Academy is the only one of the foremost preparatory schools which is not a member of the Association. The success of the association is of the greatest importance to the welfare of Harvard's athletic interests; and both for that reason and for the fact that such close ties bind Harvard and Exeter together, we feel that, in urging Exeter to join the association, we are representing a very general feeling among the undergraduates here. A year or two ago, if we remember aright, Exeter joined the Association. Phillips...
...near future, Harvard men are looking forward to. Just at present, however, what we must give our best energies to is the preparation for the track games to be held with Yale on May 16. It is all important that the first meeting of this kind should be a success. It cannot fail to be so; but Harvard men can greatly increase this success by their own earnest efforts. The track athletic team is working hard. We want it to feel that in its work the college is at its back, ready to give the most loyal support...
...seem to have acquired the first principles of the lessons which Harvard has been learning of late years. The freshmen know well enough what these lessons have been, and what the college now expects of its representatives. It is that spirit of earnest activity which is absolutely essential to success...
...college's interest in all these branches of athletic sport is unusually keen this spring. It is an interest which shows that the college can give to boating and base ball, to track athletics, to cricket and to tennis, a support so loyal as to end in sure success...
...have much to hope from these games. Nothing could have resulted better than our system of class and scrub football games. In the past years, the class base ball games, as well, have generally been of considerable interest; but they have not seemed to work towards success for the 'varsity. This year Captain Dean will have this end prominently in view, and will try to run the class games to bring to base ball a result as favorable as the class games last fall helped to bring to football...