Word: success
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale News says that the defeats of Yale freshman teams by Harvard freshman in recent years are due to the lack of suitable means for regular training. and urges that upperclassmen take a likelier in the success of freshman teams...
...ever. There is nothing new in his conception of Bertie Vanalstyne, and perhaps his admirers will be glad of it. The rest of the company deserves only negative praise. Miss Katherine Florence as Agnes is pretty and never offensive, Mr. Frank Mordaunt as Nicholas Vanalstyne imitates Crane with tolerable success...
...Grand Italian Opera Company began a week's engagement at the Mechanics' Building last night, when Mme. Albani and Sig. Tamagno appeared in Verdi's opera, "Otello." The experiment of converting the huge hall of the Mechanics' Building into an auditorium is not a success; it is impossible for the members of the company to do themselves justice in this hall, and the pleasure of hearing them is on this account seriously marred. Taking this into consideration the production of "tOello" may be said to have been a success. Mme. Albani was at her best, and carried off the honors...
...first winter meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association was held on Saturday afternoon in the Hemenway gymnasium, and was a decided success from every point of view. Previous meetings have been characterized by drawn out wrestling bouts and by slugging: on Saturday in the wrestling no fall took more than two minutes and a half, and the sparring although not especially scientific was devoid of mere slugging...
Professor Josiah Royce is to repeat in New York his course of lectures on Modern Thinkers, recently delivered in Boston with notable success. The general purposes of the course are to give personal characterizations of some of the most noteworthy modern thinkers; to suggest something of the nature of their attitudes towards the great issues of humanity and to illustrate spiritual problems of our day. The subjects are "Spinoza to Kant," "Fichte," "The Romantic Movement in Philosophy," "Hegel," "Schopenhawer," "The rise of the Philosophy of Evolution," "Idealism as a Tendency in Philosophy," "Fate, Law and Freedom," and "Optimism, Pessimism...