Word: success
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...better appointments could have been made on the Athletic Advisory committee than those announced a day or two ago. Mr. Winslow, '85, is remembered here at college as no other graduate has been perhaps for years. His success in leading the Harvard nine to victory throughout the whole intercollegiate series of '85 has won him an enviable name among Harvard graduates. Professor J. W. White, too, and Mr. Thayer, '79, are men who have the best interests of Harvard athletics at heart. Both men are old members of the nine. Mr. Thayer captained the team in '79, and has since...
While we are on this matter we want to say just a word in regard to the management of the winter meetings. Last year they were hardly considered eminently successful. The cause of this lack of success lay in the small number of entries. This year the management has taken pains to publish the list of events fully three weeks earlier than last year in order that men may see what the contests are to be in, and may have enough time in which to prepare themselves. The men intending to enter will do well to consider that this year...
...large class of poor who honestly and manfully strive to improve their own condition and to leave to their children happiness they never have themselves. Mr. White said that he was himself interested in some scheme for bettering the tenement houses in New York. The effort was a complete success simply as a business scheme. The improved buildings are built around a large interior court in such a manner that every room has a window. The buildings are arranged with outside stair cases, to avoid the dangers and discomforts of a huge wooden fire blower in the inside...
...annual coffee party of the Boy's Aid Club of Cambridge took place in Lyceum Hall last Friday, and was a great success. The managers were Spalding, Greenough, and DeWolf, '92, and Dibblee and Parker...
...first subject treated under "Topics of the Day" is the freshman football teams. The writer shows fairly conclusively that our past freshman victories are no omens of university success. The other subject treated under this head is the "Growth of Harvard and Yale," and the writer concludes his article by saying that if the west continues to prosper as it has done hitherto, and if Harvard continues to rely on New England, Yale will grow with the west, and Harvard will fall back to the pace of New England...