Word: successes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...suitable reading room furnished with electric light is too generally felt to admit of more than one opinion regarding the scheme developed two years ago to supply the want. This plan, thanks to the individual energy of two or three men, was put into practical operation with such success as Mr. Williams' report shows. This twenty-two thousand dollars, the total of cash and funds pledged is a high tribute to the energy of the men who gave their time to the work, but the fact remains that it is only about two-thirds the amount requisite before the proposed...
...Faculty and the students, and from the first had most friendly relations with the latter. After three years the committee recommended changes in its constitution, of which the chief was the addition of two undergraduate members. These changes were adopted, and from the first the undergraduate members were a success. The new committee did much valuable work, especially in revision of the playing rules of foot ball. It remained unchanged for three years, but trouble was brewing in an unexpected quarter. The number of men engaged in athletics and the number of contests had been constantly increasing since...
...election of B. W. Trafford '93 to the captaincy of the eleven places the foot ball interests of Harvard in careful and intelligent hands. Captain Trafford has been identified with foot ball at Harvard ever since he entered college, and no man has worked more untiringly for our success. His election is a a tribute to the confidence which the members of the eleven themselves repose in him, and the college is ready to follow their example. Harvard men may be sure that whatever mistakes have been made will be corrected and that all which can be done...
...conditions will be observed with absolute strictness and it will be to the interest of the men in college again to take careful note of them. The management of the Musical Clubs, in exercising great care in the details of the new plan, are taking the surest means for success; and they ask the co-operation of the students in general. If this help is gained, the concert will be eliminated of every feature which in former years may have proved objectionable. The result should show in the most successful concert ever given...
...know by Monday night how many men will attend. At the meeting of the club last night the question of initiation fees, dues and rooms was settled in a sensible way, and the club is now established on very satisfactory basis. The only thing further necessary to insure the success of the club is that the members take an interest in it. The first dinner will furnish a fairly accurate measure of how great that interest is to be. The Western men in the University should make this first dinner of their club a rousing success...