Word: successful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Whatever a Senior may think as to the little benefit he is likely to receive from a certain recitation, or whatever his theory of voluntary recitations by which he may regard the average attendance as in no sense indicative of the success of the plan, he is bound to remember that the authorities, having no other obvious criterion, have decided that attendance is to be held the proof and guaranty of the system...
...works of art that can be removed. While the necessary subscriptions are being obtained the club will study the subject, ascertain where explorations have been already made, and decide where they can best begin operations. It is scarcely necessary for us to say that we wish the enterprise every success...
...able and fit men for the places irrespective of the "element" they may belong to. The criterion is not that the "elements" have an exact numerical representation, but that positions of responsibility be filled by men who are qualified, and who will do credit to the class. With its success in this respect the class is abundantly satisfied, and we may congratulate Seventy-six that her offices will be filled gracefully and well. An element is poorly represented when an unfit man obtains an office, and not because the office is not filled from its own number. It is this...
...class in its adoption, and, as far as one experiment furnishes a criterion, stands approved in its practical issue. As the matter is one of permanent interest, we shall be pardoned in dwelling for a moment upon the significance of the experiment to judge of its measure of success or failure. It is but fair to state that some doubts are cast upon the working of this system, which, like every other yet proposed, is vitiated by the artificial division of classes by society lines. The experiment, however, is to be judged in the light of former elections...
...irreligious" characters; and to make of "virtuous, modest, Christian young women," "young women either insipid and fond of frittering away their time reading love-stories and dreaming about young men, or else bold, unchaste, and immodest." The terpsichorean efforts of this author have probably not been attended with success...