Word: successful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received from the editor a copy of this now celebrated novelty in juvenile literature, - a notice of which was unfortunately crowded out of our last issue. Seventy-six has at length found its specialty, and is to be congratulated on its success. It is a pleasing thing - a bright omen of the future - to see the Sophomoric mind turned to such innocent and humanizing pastimes, instead of planning new cruelties and tortures for the harmless Freshmen, as in the bloody days of hazing, - past, we hope, forever...
...VARIETY entertainment was given by the Memorial waiters at Lyceum Hall last Wednesday evening. The performance was, on the whole, spirited, and moderately successful. Tambourine and Bones were gotten up with the usual profusion of mouth, from which came conundrums, songs, and jokes with more than the usual liveliness. The songs were for the most part good; but the audience had some difficulty in finding out why Moses was like a bull-rusher. The dancing was a striking success, and the little farce was perhaps as good as anything. A little more practice and a little more attention to their...
...club has been encouraged to hope that the President and some of the honorary members will favor it during the year with some "conferences." Any one who has attended the French University Lectures can readily see how much these will contribute to the success of this year's meetings...
...particular, watch with a jealous care, and take a no less unusual than healthful interest in, any innovations or reforms which are incorporated into the schools. This concern in the reputation and growth of the University is nowhere more noticeable than in the very general interest evinced in the success of the colleges of Medicine and Law. To this increased solicitude is due that ingenuous criticism which is always so welcome and useful to reformers...
...that is wholly unused, while a general outline of the subject is omitted. The central fault in the system is not that the theory is incorrect, but that its application, as a practical matter, to the school and the study of the law is not as yet a success, and a modification seems desirable...