Word: successful
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Four years ago a number of sophomores, of the class of '86, desirous of obtaining better accommodations for trap-shooting than the clubs around Boston afforded, organized the Harvard Shooting Club. From the very first the club was a success. The grounds of the Middlesex Gun Club at Watertown were leased, and meetings were held every week. At first the members contented themselves with shooting for cups and medals offered from time to time by the club. Last year two new features were introduced - matches with outside clubs and an inter-class team match. Two matches were shot...
...match game on regatta day, both nines to be "selected from the academic departments alone." As this was the first time Yale had shown any inclination to play Harvard, the challenge was eagerly accepted, although it was really a Greek gift, the Yale nine having been meeting with great success during the spring. At this time I find the earliest mention on record of that time-honored lie: "Vassar Female College has a base-ball club and ten boat clubs...
...said in my last paper, the Harvard nine, confident of success, "went gaily to the fray" like the Knights of Old whom they so much resembled. Their defeat and humiliation followed, and with heavy hearts they began to labor anew...
...believe that our victories have been due to your introduction and enforcement of correct principles of rowing, and we wish to impress upon graduates the faithful adherence to those principles. Nor is the success of the 'Cook Stroke' to be measured by victories alone. You have aroused throughout the university a general interest in oarsmanship, the goods results of which are seen in the constantly increasing number of students who resort to this mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with...
Although it is early to prophesy, nevertheless we feel sure that Harvard will be successful in the inter-collegiate games this spring. The number of candidates to choose from is very large, and some of them ought to make good men. We have lost several of the men who won prizes for us in New York last year, but we are sure their places will be filled from last year's non prize winners, or from new men. When the track opens, Mr. Lathrop will give his personal instruction to the men, and success of the past two years...