Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certain ways seems to occupy a middle ground between the "Monthly" and the "Lampoon." It often has stories of the same general character as those which appear in the "Monthly; while on the other hand its sketches and verse are frequently suitable for the "Lampoon." Therefore, for the best success of Harvard journalism, it seems to the present writer that in time a fusion of the "Lampoon" and the "Advocate" will be necessary. The result will be a paper devoted to the lighter side of student life, as the "Monthly" is to the more serious. Whatever it prints, however...
...deserves to be called perfect. So vividly were Manfred's sorrows, his despair and noble defiance of fate brought before the listener that when the last low notes died away it seemed a shame that the illusion should be destroyed. Liszt's symphonic poem was given with the usual success, and seemed to be the most popular number on the programme...
Gibson, '88, Chamberlain, '86, Bowen, '87, Clark, '86, and Pennypacker, '88, are throwing the hammer. Chamberlain, '86, Clark, '86, Pennypacker, '88, and Garrison, '88, have been putting the shot; the first named with great success...
...sort of action, and it may unhappily be so in this case. The question that should be asked in deciding this matter is not "What should I like to do?" but "What ought I to do?" In answering this question we have but to glance at our degrees of success in the different things we have undertaken in our lives, and a correct conclusion is pretty sure to be reached. Even if we have been really successful in nothing, there must be something in which we have proved more competent than in the rest. Perfect success is not necessarily...
...about attracting Canadian students to this country is, that a college is almost entirely deprived of the most effective means of overcoming international prejudice and conservatism - advertising. A college can not, or from motives of professional etiquette, will not avail itself of the methods, which, for instance, have brought success to Mr. Pear, the soapman, or Mr. Redfern, the clothesman, or any of the other eminent advertisers who sell their wares in foreign markets. The college, however, is not entirely without resources. It can keep itself before the eye of the student public in a quiet, though not ineffective...