Word: successful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...share of the day's blunders. As the record shows, the game was all one way from the first, and resulted in a Harvard victory of 25 to 4. '76 is the first Freshman Class that has beaten Yale since '71, and we heartily congratulate the Nine upon their success...
...might well copy, in this respect, the more staid and phlegmatic English and Germans; to be sure, these have their faults, but the most certain way to gain any end is by a safe and thoughtful process, rather than by a violent, hasty action; and the straightest path to success in study is not by excessive application, but by a judicious and reasonable division of one's time between diligence and diversion...
...Cheever Goodwin's burlesque, "Evangeline," to be produced in a few weeks. It is a bold, spirited composition, and extremely effective as arranged either for the piano-forte or a full orchestra. It has been played at some of the theatres for the past fortnight with great success. The air of the trio is very sweet and pleasing, and the combinations in harmony throughout, many of them novel and ingenious, give the piece a very different character from the tum-ti-tum marches which are everywhere published with such lavish profusion...
...will deny the value of this thorough mastery of a few branches of knowledge instead of an acquaintance with all; in answer, two considerations might be brought up, - one the effect on character of becoming perfectly certain in some department of learning, feeling that in one thing at least success has been attained and not merely half-way work; the other an argument from the desire for culture - true culture - itself the training of the whole mind, not by vague ideas gained in careless study or reading, but by definite, clear-cut knowledge of that for which we feel ourselves...
...have noticed in our exchanges for some time. Something depends, perhaps, upon the prettiness of the name "Cayuga"; it recurs after every three lines: now, should we substitute "Skeneateles" or "Schoodiwabschooksis" in its place, we are afraid that even neat and graceful verses could hardly make the poem a success. For instance...