Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advance of rational ideas of education with us than the rapidly increasing use which is made of the gymnasium by the college at large. True education requires a sound body as its first requisite and a thorough awakening to this fact is a circumstance most encouraging for the success of all of Harvard's experiments in educational matters. In the few days since college opened, there have been nearly three hundred applications for physical examinations. Forty applications have been made for lockers above the number now in the gymnasium. As there are over nine hundred and fifty lockers already...
...kicking the ball over the line instead of rushing it. The tackling was too high, a fault which seems to be always confined alone to Harvard teams and which will take constant practice to overcome. The fumbling of long kicks occurred with altogether too much frequency to insure success against either Yale or Princeton. In short, the play was much worse than anticipated, and a "brace" must be made at once...
...will be taken to Riverside, starting from University at 3 sharp. On Saturday morning, Oct. 23d, the club will ride to Lynn, taking dinner at the Boscobel and returning in the afternoon. Every member of the club is urged to join in these runs and make the club a success...
...chair. An audience of about sixty listened to excellent talks on the principles of the society from Prof. F. G. Peabody, Rev. E. E. Hale and Mr. Cummings. Dr. Hale spoke of the almost uniformity of the rule that it was the abstaining portion of men who achieved success in all walks of life, and especially in the department of literature. He then humorously alluded to the future meeting in 1936 of the class of '86 over in some room in Weld, and spoke of those who would then be major-generals or privates, according as they had withstood...
...Pierian Sodality holds its first meeting to-morrow for the examination of candidates for the coming year. Every upperclassman recalls how prosperous the society was in every regard last year. Its successes, musical and financial, were entirely unprecedented. Everybody and those who are best able to judge music in particular, spoke favorably of the high degree of perfection which the orchestra achieved in its rendition of some of the more ambitious compositions which it performed. The bulk of the material of the orchestra is now of two years standing, as the club has lost only about seven men since...