Word: successes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...significance of many other interests which up to that time they had merely felt, in a vague way, to be in existence. The dinner has a tendency to make men more open, hearty and sympathetic, and we strongly hope that it may this year be made an entire success...
...club this year has taken great pains to have its exhibit a success. The pictures are hung to much better advantage than in former years, a special background being put up for the purpose. The pictures are all the result of the past summer's work, and show great activity on the part of the club members...
...desperate struggle in such circumstances will be an immense help to athletics. If Harvard men in the future can feel that at a time when prospects were the darkest, no despondence and no slacking in determination were indulged, it will be a spur that will go far towards securing success. The more times that Harvard acquits herself well in hard places, the more likelihood is there that she will be able to do so again. An athletic spirit, transmitted from class to class, is a very real force...
...spirit which manifests itself in more ways here than in the matter of a Trophy Room, and which makes success nearly impossible wherever it appears. Harvard may originate as many ideas as she pleases, but unless she uses what she originates, where is the profit? There is, indeed, absolute loss. Other universities take advatage of Harvard's work and use it against her. There are men now connected with the University who have seen tricks, first played by Harvard teams, taken up by Yale and years after worked successfully against later Harvard teams. We must have some way of profiting...
Such acts are not evidence of a lively sense of honor. The placards are a recognized means for announcing college events, and their removal is a clear subtraction from the chances of success with which these events will be held. A man has no more right to attack the prosperity of college institutions in this than in any other way. The custom of adorning walls with such placards, harmless as it may be when placards are obtained after they have served their usefulness, now threatens to become ominous for college interests. It is to be supposed that some premature removals...