Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wife to her new home by the Neckar. Gloom and sorrow follow close after. A jet black steed in inky trappings is led by, mournful and riderless. Black plumes nod on his head, and a broken shield hangs from the empty saddle. He symbolizes the War of the Orleans Succession and the disasters which plunged the "gay court" in deepest mourning. Under Carl Philipp things are more cheerful. It is a time for hunting and merry-making. A huge boar is carried triumphantly aloft in a wagon, and then a stag. Falconers ride by with hooded birds perched upon their...
...morrow at 12 o'clock, the books now at Leavitt & Pierce's and the Co-operative store to receive the names of those students who wish to participate in the torch-light procession will be removed. In order to make the procession a success befitting the 250th anniversary of the college, it is absolutely necessary to have a larger number of students march than have ever done so heretofore. For some inexplicable reason the list of signatures from the classes of '89 and '88 are much smaller than in the two lower classes. We understand that there are some...
...arrangements for the celebration have now taken such definite shape that the vague doubts about its success which were heard some weeks ago have quite disappeared. Everyone looks forward with confidence to three days of great and memorable festivity...
...election of directors of the Dining Association will take place this evening. This election is generally esteemed a matter of little importance by the members of the Dining Association, but we wish to remind them that the success of the association depends upon the choice of directors. Many are now dissatisfied with the quality of the food at Memorial, and think that the price of board should be raised. If that is their opinion, why not vote for directors and other officers of the Dining Association with some care? All who desire an exchange in the management of the hall...
...until now it has reached a requirement of fifty beyond the limit, is an answer to this criticism of Harvard. But it does seem extraordinary that when so many men are daily thrown into athletic competition, there is not aroused such an emulation that there is no possibility of success against the crimson in any branch of athletics. It is a burning shame that when Harvard might so easily hold the field unrivalled, she is forced to make such desperate efforts to maintain herself as first...