Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Page, the famous high jumper, attributes all his success in that sport to his persistent bicycle riding...
...Glee Club-Pierian coffee party was pronounced a great success by all present...
Every man owes his success in life to "catching the step," either by observation or by instinct. Thirty years ago, a college graduate was expected to go into the ministry, law, medicine, or engineering. Now the world is changed. There is at present, too, a spirit of organization. As Tennyson says; "The individual withers, and the whole is more and more." The presence of this spirit makes the difference between our own times and those of our fathers. Combinations of capital were the first to arise. Those of labor now confront them. The two must be harmonized, and the railroad...
...quality of the work done by every man is affected by the nature of the circumstances under which he lives. A bare and cold garret may be in theory an excellent place to do one's best literary work, but in practise the theory does not meet with much success...
...women. By the terms of this gift the heads of the department at Wellesley are to have "Sabbatical years," after the manner of Harvard professors. Says the Cambridge Tribune: "It seems most fitting that the means for all this should have come from a citizen of Cambridge, the success of whose great university is owing in no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts and direct benefactions of women from the time of Lucy Downing to Mrs. Sever...