Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be a good thing, but it has ceased to be that. It has become a hard, stubborn fight and presupposing that the Yale race is no walk-over, no eight men can pull the four miles the second time in one week, with a fair prospect for success. The boat club would do well to take advice from '88 and so increase still more the chances of victory over our friends from New Haven...
...such that they must choose between permitting our nine to play with professionals and of unconditionally pressing the remaining colleges to prohibit such play. It is only by one of these two means that they can escape the natural imputation of a desire to run the chances of our success...
...board, the tone of that paper have been steadily advancing and the present number shows an exceptional excellence in its well executed pictures and the humor of its articles. There is no college paper which labors under more difficulties than the Lampoon and none in which success should be more assured. The experiment of starting the same kind of a publication at other colleges has proved a dismal failure, and every student should show his appreciation of the energy and push which has been displayed in conducting the Lampoon successfully so many years by giving it his support...
...grand fault of freshman teams is an over-confidence which, prophesying victory, thinks superfluous the careful and minute preparation success demands. Anything then that tends to educate men in athletics or to cultivate interest in them is of vital importance to the freshmen as a body, as a counterpoise to the above mentioned error of over confidence, and individuals would do well to bear in mind that the training they can get by trying for their crew may serve them well later, when, being older, rougher and more fully developed, their ambition may be the 'Varsity crew...
...Dramatic Association, which has been a great success since its foundation two years ago, has decided to produce some light comedy this term and a tragedy the earlier part of winter term. It has not been decided as yet what will be brought out this term, but in all probability it will be Byron's "Weak Woman...