Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee which was appointed at the large and interested meeting, three weeks ago, must have surely decided on an interesting enough plan of action to attract even a larger audience at Sever to-night. The fact that Mr. Cohn is the mover in this new enterprise answers for its success; - in fact the French department never seems to do anything unsuccessful. We have heard it whispered about that perhaps lectures or addresses by distinguished Frenchmen will be found among the other literary treats which the society will offer its members. We are sure that the meeting this evening will...
President of the United States (applause). We welcome him cordially, personally for his many merits and high claims to individual consideration. We welcome him here politically as the executive head of the great nation of which Massachusetts is the component part. Everywhere all of us are interested in the success of his administration, and most cordially wish it success...
...come to this. The people of the United States have a solemn mission, one and all, to perform; and their President, not more surely than every man who loves his country, must assume his share of the responsibility of demonstrating to the nations of the world, the success of popular government. [Applause.] No man can hide his talent in a napkin and escape the condemnation which his selfishness deserves, and the stern sentence which his faithlessness invites...
...closing feature of yesterday's celebration was in its way, almost as much of a success as were all the other features of Harvard's great festivities. The torchlight procession was carefully arranged, and presented a very organized appearance. The great variety of costumes, of transparencies, with their manifold jokes, the dazzling glare of torches, from which every now and then, a stream of fire shot into the clear, cold sky, must all have afforded a great deal of delight to the sleepy inhabitants of Cambridgeport and to those of our own venerable, old, hoary Cambridge. All the happiness...
...procession is over, and it has been a decided success,- a fitting climax to the stirring events of the day. To the many people who feared that it would not be a success, it was a pleasant disappointment; to every one it was a source of interest and amusement...