Word: successful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...scholarship funds are at present administered. It is claimed, for instance, that many are allowed to compete for scholarships to whom they are no more of a necessity than to others who are practically excluded. Protests against the present usage have been made in past years, but without success. Owing to the conditions under which nearly all the scholarships have been left, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to throw them open to free competition. All that can be done is to influence future founders of scholarships, and this point must be kept in view by those who write...
...arrangements for the Harvard-Yale race, and is therefore earnestly to be deprecated by all who wish to see that race firmly established there as a regular annual "institution." Few people are aware that the management of last summer's contest, which was so generally praised as a great success, escaped disastrous failure only by a series of lucky accidents; and quite as few have any proper comprehension of the extent of the difficulties which the manager of such an affair always has to contend against. Provision must be made for all manner of untoward circumstances. which may possibly arise...
...speaking of the boat-club theatricals recently given in New York, we should have mentioned the name of Mr. Nathaniel Curtis in connection with Mr. Sherwood's. The latter, it is true, composed a number of the songs, and contributed to the success of the performance by his acting; but the credit of having originated the undertaking, altered the play, and selected the company, belongs to Mr. Curtis. The omission was accidental, as it is well known in Cambridge that Mr. Curtis, though not occupying a prominent position at rehearsals, was the heart and soul of the enterprise...
...know more, and there are many others who know nothing about it, but would be glad to learn; to all such the present opportunity will doubtless prove a welcome one. Mr. Carey brings to his work a good reputation, and a method of instruction which has been very successful elsewhere. If he can succeed in arousing a general interest in singing he will deserve the thanks of all, but it remains to be seen whether he will be able to overcome our old friend. Harvard indifference. There is certainly material enough in college, and much of it is raw material...
...next Monday I was waked up (8.30 A. M.) by the lively reunion of two cats, as I supposed, but it turned out to be only the exultant crowing of cocks, trying some new and wholly original combinations of sounds. They were a success, I fancy, for I retired, after a hasty toilet, leaving the victorious rooster to camp on a deserted field. Whenever I entered my room, morning or afternoon, this piteous moaning continued, and I found out that it was a melodeon. So much information was gained, but the momentous question arose, "How often is it taken sick...