Word: successful
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...Herbert Welsh is the son of Hon. John Welsh who preceeded Mr. Lowell as minister to the Court of St. James. In graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in '71, he devoted himself to art with considerable success. From this, however, he was soon drawn away to philanthropic work which has since absorbed all his time and attention. Mr. Welch is himself a marked instance of what can be done by a young man who devotes himself to our line of philanthropic statesmanship. For since graduating from college he has as much as any one man in the country brought...
...Glee Club concert last evening in Roxbury was a great success. So was the Dixey ball...
...college at large says - "lack of an energetic head." I do not attempt myself to formulate the cause; I merely state things as I find them. If F. W. K. is satisfied that he can get all desires out of the English courses of Harvard College, I wish him success and happiness; but who else agrees with...
...elocution, the interest taken in the club was allowed to die out owing to the rarity of the meetings and the club itself became practically a thing of the past. This year a few of the old members of the club, who still retain an interest in its success, tried to revive it, but thus far their efforts have been unavailing. Steps should be taken at once by those of the old members who still feel an interest in the study of dramatic expression and desire a higher course of training than that afforded by the elementary courses in elocution...
...Regulations" is very just. The new rule is, in my opinion, inconsistent with one of the principles underlying the elective system, - that equal excellence in every study cannot be attained by the same individual, but that some minds are so constituted that they can not pursue certain branches with success. Now this principle is recognized by the faculty elsewhere, as is evidenced by the following extract from the 1886-87 mathematical announcement; "It is unadvisable for students who have little taste or capacity for Mathematics to attempt the higher Mathematical electives." Is not that principle equally applicable to this case...