Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arctic weather, to be sure, is suggestive of anything but base-ball, yet it will be but a short time before the nine displays in the field the results of the steady and energetic work done in the gymnasium. The outlook for the crimson is very bright. Nothing ensures success like the consciousness of success already won, and the record of last year's nine cannot fail to stimulate to every effort the nine of the present year. With the men now trying for positions we have every reason to be satisfied. Enough men of the old team remain...
...heartily congratulate the new editorial board of the Lampoon on the success of its first number; for the issue not only keeps up, but even raises the paper's reputation. The most noticeable feature is the change on the first page; instead of the old plainly lettered Harvard Lampoon we have a very attracting heading, which shows Lampy sitting on the cross bar of the H, playing a banjo. Another improvement which lightens the appearance of the page, has been made by printing all the reading matter and most of the pictures without ruled lines, either on the borders...
...Thorough work has been done in training and close contests in many of the events may be expected. The high price of seats ought not to deter men from purchasing, as by this means the high character of the audience is preserved. We wish the Athletic Association the highest success in the coming season's work. It is anticipated that one record at least will be broken. We trust this series of meetings will infuse new enthusiasm into our athletics and that in consequence of the interest aroused, more thorough work will be done than has been possible during...
...months are given the student to rejuvenate his mental faculties and tone up his physical constitution, and seems to think the one is not accomplished by association with the help usually employed around hotels or the other by sleeping in laundries or under bowling alleys. As to the financial success of the scheme he is equally skeptical, his experience seeming to have been that the cooks got the greater part of his perquisites or wages, emphasizing their demands, when he was disposed to be less generous than they wished, by furnishing such poor food at the table presided over...
...Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition put on the northern side, and also erected the little building which stood just to the east of the addition. This he had fitted up as a workshop for the manufacture of muskets. As a state enterprise, however, this was not a success, and work was soon discontinued...