Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of having a monthly at Amherst of a character similar to the Yale Lit, is now, it is said, definitely settled, and the magazine is an assured success...
...petition, the aim of which is to make boxing cheaper for the students interested therein. It opposed such a measure on the ground that it ensured a favor only to "many students" and not to the university at large. This is true, but it must be remembered that the success of this attempt would give more men the enjoyment of sparring. Practice of this kind is, as all other gymnasium exercise, merely a recreation for the mind, but I cannot understand why it should not on that account be well cultivated. The art of self-defence, while it gives...
...freshman nine is now at work in the gymnasium, and we urge upon all candidates the necessity of regular attendance and careful work. The prospect of the freshman nine, judging from the number and excellence of the candidates, is certainly very favorable for success, if the men are constant and energetic. There is little need for us to remind eighty-nine of the treatment Harvard freshman nines have received in the past, and we sincerely hope that eighty-nine will break the record. Nothing but hard work will enable a freshman nine to defeat a Yale freshman nine, having...
...promises to be a marked year in the history of Fair Harvard. It has been ushered in without sound of clarion, it is true, but could clarion note add celebrity to an introduction so startling and gratifying? The Lampoon - we are overcome with pride in our brother's success - has actually succeeded in keeping, until the time of issuing the first number, a new year's resolution, to dress old jokes in new costume. Well done, Lampy. Serve a few of prae-Adamite cold dishes, kept in your frigid zone, with new year's sauce, and win our most hearty...
...often been said, the first essential for success is sincerity. By sincere writing I mean that into which you have put part of yourself. Like most short definitions, this one means both too much and too little. But when applied to particular cases, it will be limited, or stretched...