Word: successes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ALTHOUGH the Sophomore dinner was pronounced a great success, and everything passed off with great credit to the committee, yet there was one thing which seemed to me desirable to render it in reality a class dinner, and that was one half the class...
...bright faces of the young ladies in Cambridge, and we would not even be so selfish as to envy them a Harvard degree; but we have too much respect for them to wish to have them associated with us in our college course. Many examples of the success of co-education have been quoted; but it has had some results which are not so satisfactory, and the reports of these results have been carefully suppressed. In spite of all that is said to the contrary, co-education in college is not a success in the highest sense of the word...
...EDWARD ATKINSON delivered a very interesting address on "Capital and Labor" before the Finance Club on Friday evening last. In spite of the Semi-annuals a large number of undergraduates were present, besides several members of the Faculty. The Finance Club have reason to be satisfied with the success of their first lecture, and their future ones will be looked forward to with much interest...
...been objected to a general system of eleemosynary scholarships, that, under conditions which are found in America, it is impossible to make a fair selection of those who should be encouraged to compete for them. The reasons which prevent business men from confessing their want of success, in order that their boys may try for scholarships, have already been noted. But, putting parents out of the question, it is clear that any practicable tests between minor applicants must be of the roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property...
...with pleasure that I comply with your invitation to say something about the newly projected intercollegiate regatta under the auspices of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen; for my desire that this deserving experiment should be successfully carried through at Newark or Saratoga is second only to my desire that the annual University boat-race between the two old Colleges should be permanently established at New London, under a management that shall not be handicapped by the simultaneous presence upon the river of any other crews whatever. As it seems to me, on the one hand, that Harvard's support...