Word: success
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...success of the junior dinner has brought up the question of the advisability of the underclassmen taking up such an affair. In a reply to a communication urging the extension of this custom, you favored holding a sophomore dinner, but made objection to a similar meeting of the freshman class on the ground that the class was seldom sufficiently united to make the event a success. With its special organizations, in addition to its athletic teams, is not the freshman class, toward the close of the year, really more united than the sophomore class? In any case, would...
...will find the whole cast in a state of thorough preparation. The club has been very fortunate this year in the selection of a trainer. Mr. James Gilbert has won the confidence and praise of all connected with the play, and his efforts are sure to be rewarded with success. The care which he is giving to the chorus, in particular, will result in several unusually effective opening and closing scenes in the three acts. The principals receive separate attention in the afternoons. Among them, A. H. Parker and H. Schurz are particularly good...
...nothing like development of character should be attempted. Conspicuous examples of the best sort of short stories observe this unity of character and give the reader a glimpse, a sketch, an episode, rather than any essay toward elaborate portrayal of persons or events. Thus, Mr. Hardy has been less successful in the tales entitled "Fellow Travellers," "Interlopers at the Knap," and in others that might be named, than would have been expected from a writer of his imagination and other rich gifts. Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Walford, and even Mrs. Gaskill have written stories after the manner of the novel-chapter...
...prospects for success are highly encouraging. There will be but one Cambridge performance, that in Brattle Hall on Tuesday evening, April 7, at 8 o'clock. All seats are to be reserved. Tickets (at one dollar each) will be put on sale at Amee's, 5 Harvard square, this morning...
...believe that a sophomore class dinner would be a good thing, but that a freshman dinner is not advisable. The freshman class is seldom sufficiently united to make such an event a success, and if it were not successful it would take much of the interest from the class dinners that came afterwards...