Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accomplish a necessary end. It would be strange, indeed, if eighty-nine did not possess sufficient and suitable material to form a good eleven. There are good men in the class, and they need only the proper encouragement to go on the field. With a firm determination to success the freshmen can afford to get "rattled" and play a "wretched game," for there will ensue that "decided brace" which always comes at the right moment. So let the freshmen take heart and feel that steady work will soon put them in as good condition for work as their predecessors...
Canon Farrar has a book in press entitled "Success in Life...
...readings, and they are given by gentlemen whose names assure those who care to interest themselves in the matter that attendance will fully repay any one for the time he may give to it. The most prominent gentlemen in their several departments are lending their best efforts to the success of the course, and the readings already given are examples of the excellence which may justly be expected in the readings which are to follow. Too many of us are apt to lay aside the classical or even the modern languages, when once our minds are diverted to other channels...
...researches of ours. Standing before such a large body of young men, he felt compelled to say, as an English divine had said before, "I bid you aspire" Seek better things. There are, however, three classifications of better things. The lowest - but one not to be despised - the personal success of rank and wealth. This is in the power of any who has iron enough in his nature to say, "I ought, I can, I will." Higher, is the service of one's country. One, who as a patriot can rank himself with that list, has not lived in vain...
...genius in its author. The poet of the class of eighty-six, A. B. Houghton, contributes "A Ballad to Don Quixote," which breaths forth the true poetic spirit. These, with book reviews and editorials make up the number. Judged by this first issue the Harvard Monthly is a decided success, as we had every thought that it would be. And so long as it is conducted by its present able board of editors, these will be no deterioration in its merit...