Word: successes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Princeton.- The Bric-a-Brac is out, and is pronounced a success...
...Freshman foot-ball match with Yale last Saturday was a decided success. The game was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, in the presence of about four hundred people. Our team won the toss and kicked with the sun at their backs...
...team as strong as any we have ever met, and we are willing to acknowledge that we did not expect to see in them the great improvement they have made since our game last spring. It is not our desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success; but we cannot help feeling that we have learned again the very old lesson of defeat from over-confidence. That such was the cause of our defeat must strike every one who reads an account of the game, and notices that during the first-half, with the wind blowing hard...
While in college Sumner gave no promise of his brilliant future; and yet he was always known for his steadfastness of purpose, - a quality to which he owed much of his success in life. He was one of the most, but not the most brilliant writer in his class; and his extreme fondness for oratory foreshadowed to some extent his future career. Yet, on the whole, there are many men in college to-day whose success, as far as one can tell, is far more assured than was Sumner's during his college life...
...congratulate the Foot-Ball Eleven on their success against Tufts Tuesday afternoon. The fall sports have opened well for Harvard, and we have every reason to expect that next spring and summer will find us in as good condition as we were last year. We would, however, warn our athletes not to be over confident; we would remind them that, although prestige is an excellent thing in its way, it will not win victories in the ball-field and on the river, unless backed by continued hard labor. In the game with Tufts, as in the games we have played...