Word: successes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale speakers are Buttrick and Gillespie from the Yale Union and Tyner from the Kent Club of the Law School. The judges are President Low of Columbia, President Gates of Amherst, and Professor Smith of Columbia. Elaborate preparations have been made to have the debate in every way a success...
...wish the Harvard representatives in the debate with Yale tonight as complete a success as crowned their efforts last January. That was the first occasion at which a decision was rendered and we trust that the good beginning which Harvard then made was but the forerunner of many others. The speakers tonight have in competitive debate open to the whole University proved their right to the honor of representing Harvard. That they will do her and themselves proud, we have not a doubt and we wish them not only for ourselves but in behalf of the University at large...
Aside from the hammer throwing and shot putting, Saturday's contest for the Well's Cup proved an encouraging success...
...totally unprepared and the team which Harvard will put into the field will be considerably altered in its make-up. An accident of this kind invariably disturbs the work of the nine as a whole and we shall be suprised if under the circumstances the freshmen meet with success. However, we extend to them our heartiest good wishes If victory comes to them, the men may well feel proud of their record; it will be a triumph over odds which will increase the satisf action of winning. If they loose, there will be still another chance to even...
...Wagner remodelled it for the Paris performance, so that now it is more of a concert piece than any other of his overtures, with the possible exception of that to Lohengrin. It is interesting, however, to note the part that Liszt took in bringing about Wagner's success. "The first Welmar performance of the Tannhaeuser Overture took place on a Sunday and the students of the University of Jena were present in full force. Ignoring royalty. they burst into boisterous and continued applause; but, as the opera was long and they had to get back to the university they left...