Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...succeeded by a larger sheet, called the Harvard Herald, a name that was changed at the beginning of the following year to the Daily Herald. There are several inaccuracies in these remarks. In the first place, the Herald was started early in the year 1882, and its success drove the Echo out of an existence which had become burdensome both to itself and to its readers. The Herald was originally owned and managed by a few individuals, but on May 12, 1882, the editorial board or the Harvard Daily Herald was organized, and from that day to this the daily...
...will preach at the opening service this evening. It is not often that members of the University have a privilege like this offered them, and we have no doubt that the attendance of students at these services will be very large. We trust that they will meet with the success which the past history of the St. Paul's Society certainly justifies us in predicting for them...
...student-readers are objects which fall in under this wider object. For the former is but the expression of a real kind of literary attempt, and is, as we know, the motive which gave life to our old "Advocate," and the latter is a necessary condition to the success of a paper. From this answer we gain no warrant to say that college papers should be filled by anything else than matter written by students. But we are told that we all like to read articles by our professors and by well-known outside writers. True, but we can read...
Every would-be writer goes to Paris, where he meets other congenial youths, by whose zeal his enthusiasm is whetted, and in whose company he cannot but give himself single-hearted to his original ambition. Often poverty compels labor, which is the surest road to success, and in every case there is a subtle influence, that of the still fervent reaction which is fast culminating that engulfs men with the resistlessness of a vortex...
...play was followed by the junior cotillion. Many ladies were present from New York, Orange, and Philadelphia, who by their rich costumes enhanced the scene of the ball-room. Credit is due the committee in charge for their success in making this cotillion the best ever held in the history of the college...