Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...initial lecture is peculiarly apt, for while few Harvard students, perhaps, will actually grace the boards, it is not by any means improbable that many students will write for the stage. There is a large field open in the direction of dramatic writing, and solid satisfactory remuneration awaits success in this field. In these days when public speaking becomes absolutely necessary to public men, and when every man of determined opinions is at some time compelled to speak out those opinions, no opportunity ought to be neglected by which a better method of speaking may be obtained. The work...
...read the history of the Anti-Slavery contest, which he is so fond of quoting, he cannot discover one apology for evil, or one compromise with evil men and methods made by any one of the little band of Abolitionists; and no one can dispute their great and lasting success...
...times some peculiarly independent thinker decries reading as debilitating to the mind, and advocates a little more use of the brains. But these invectives are few and far between, for the growth of reading has become so universal that the habit of reading has become absolutely essential to a successful career. And it is safe to say that if this habit is not gained by college men during the years they spend at college they will never acquire it. "Read," said an old monk to Anselm in his boyhood; "read my son, for by reading only mayest thou attain success...
...public." The initial lecture will be given in Sanders, on Friday evening of this week. The lecture will be given by Mr. Bronson Howard, of New York, on "The Autobiography of a Play." The address cannot fall to be of great interest, for Mr. Howard is himself a highly successful playwright. He is the author of "The Banker's Daughter," "Young Mrs. Winthrop," and "One of Our Girls," all of which Harvard students have seen acted with pronounced success. Plays of Mr. Howard are at present on the boards at London, Paris, and New York. We understand that Mr. Howard...
...congratulate the able management for their great success in furnishing us three such enjoyable meetings, still more on the promptness and quiet with which they were dispatched. Our only regret is that they could not have made a more perfect understanding with Jupiter Pluvius in regard to the weather - two rainy Ladies' Days are beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitants...