Word: successful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the Athletic Association last spring was such a success, why would it not be a good plan to have another this autumn? The autumn is certainly as favorable a time as any for training, and there are no examinations to interfere with out-of-door exercise. If prizes should be given as handsome as those of last spring, many would doubtless enter...
...captain whom it will be very difficult to replace. Many of the societies lose their most efficient officers and most energetic members, and the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality will find several missing from their ranks. It is a source of great satisfaction, however, in this time of our success on the river, to know that the Captain of the 'Varsity will be with us this year, and will take his old thwart in the boat. To '82 we are looking with interest and expectancy. '82! The very figures warn us of our increasing baldness and our fast-falling gray...
...University. Our four months of winter are a natural defence against exaggeration in this direction. It is much to be wished that our hardest-working students should come to believe, and to practise upon the belief, that a sound and vigorous body is in most cases indispensable to success in any active form of intellectual life...
...laid out by guesswork - proved, on being surveyed after the races, to be 130 feet 9 inches short of the proper distance. Hence the exact speed of the crews over a course of the proper length can only be guessed at. Altogether the regatta cannot be called an unqualified success...
...master of the evening; and after the past and present officers of the society had been called upon, many of the members also responded, including those of the first ten from '81 who were present. The appearance of Mr. Wheelan and Mr. Redding, who have contributed largely to the success of the stage of the society, was the signal for hearty applause. Mr. Ranlett answered to the "Records," Mr. Jones to the "Committee," and Mr. Fowler to the "Pipe." Mr. Weimer paid a tribute to Mr. Gillette, the former president. The Pierian Sodality was responded to by Mr. Talbott...