Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...longed that the nine might again reach, but let us not forget that the winning of the championship is our real purpose, and the chances for this are very good. To be disheartened now would be suicidal; therefore the college should take a still more active interest in the success of its most popular team; and during the coming week, when so many games are to be played, Holmes Field must be filled with enthusiastic students, whose support must be hearty and inspiring confidence...
...undergraduates. The renewed interest shown in the Advocate and the establishment of a magazine of such marked excellence as the Monthly, have undoubtedly inspired students not of Harvard to better work. Proof of this is received on every hand. We congratulate the gentlemen of the English department upon the success which has attended their efforts, and assure them that their work has influenced students broadly separated from them. We wish the "Amherst Literary Monthly" and the "Phillips Exeter Literary Monthly" the highest success...
...corporation of Yale College have finally elected a president to succeed Dr. Porter. Professor Dwight, the president-elect, has proved an efficient and popular instructor, and the highest hopes are entertained for his success at the head of the college. The new president is said to be an ardent exponent of the new ideas of reform in collegiate work, and it is expected that his administration will result in placing Yale on a more radical basis. We welcome this new proof of the wisdom of the policy of Harvard. We trust that the work of President Dwight will demonstrate that...
...objected by some that student opinion is not to be governed by the action of a student committee. Yet a representative committee, if elected, is certain to exercise a stronger influence than any set of resolutions, however formally drawn up and endorsed. But the committee cannot hope for success unless supported by the good will and hearty assistance of their fellow students. We trust that the committee will prove efficient in their work, and that henceforth our celebrations will be somewhat more gentlemanly, if less extravagant...
...varsity leave to-day for Princeton. The best wishes of the whole university go with them. The good work of the team during the past few days affords a basis for confident hopes of success...