Word: successful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...brief two weeks of performance were heartily sorry to hear of her sudden illness. Miss Ethel has won the Boston heart, and we trust that she will soon return and complete her too short engagement. The part of Agnes has been assumed by Mrs. Barry this week with great success, considering how short was the time given her for preparation...
...beauty and grace of person, the purity and loftiness of bearing, which Miss Ethel so easily gives to it. Although unequal to the passages of tragic emotion, these are so few that the lady's weakness in those parts leaves but little impression on the mind. Her greatest success is achieved in the first scene with her husband, where she shows him the drawings, and in the fourth act, where she endeavors to recall his truant love. In these scenes her light-comedy powers have full scope, and we recognize them to be of high order. Her support was very...
...what we need at Harvard is a deeper appreciation of the fact that college is but a preparatory school, after all; that before very long we shall be placed in a position where earnestness is almost indispensable to success, and indifference a thing to be fought against, instead of cherished. This estimate of the value of earnestness is not exactly new; it certainly must have occurred to Noah when he set about building the ark, - to say nothing of Adam or the pre-Adamite, - and it has been handed down to us in a great many old adages, which...
...there can be no great advance of it. The question at issue is, whether they can be roused better by strict discipline and repeated exhortations than by being compelled to depend on themselves in meeting the exigencies of college life. The first system has been tried, and with tolerable success; but it is significant that, after pupils have got almost to manhood, the slacker the government has been, the more marked the success. It is also to be noticed - and Dr. McCosh is unfair in not noticing - that the two serious objections offered to the plan of voluntary recitations apply...
...conclude, the low price at which the Magenta is offered necessitates a large subscription-list. Let our friends remember this if they would see an enterprise flourish whose success will be, we do not say an honor, but a convenience...