Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...value of good notes has been ably discussed and long and thoroughly acknowledge. If, then, as we are aware, a majority of the subjects of study in college are taught by a system of instruction from which the students' abilities to profit rests almost wholly upon his success in getting good notes at lectures, is it not all important that no expedient be left untried which can possibly aid him in this very vital part of his work? In a word, this note-taking, if I may be permitted the expression, is the wholesale industry of the college, and with...
...many causes that act together to give this result. Fortunate location, rich endowments, noted professors, are some of them. One of the principal causes of college supremacy, however, is found in the students. These young men go to college to be moulded into something better, and the success of this moulding process depends more on the ambition of the student than on the skill of the professor...
...remain in college that the nine will have but few new players on it, and these, although new, will be far from inexperienced. It is, of course, altogether too early to offer any predictions in regard to the nine, but it is safe to say that every effort towards success will be made by the individual members of the team, which, backed up by the good will and enthusiasm of the college, ought to go a long way towards the desired goal. The enthusiasm is sure to come, as any one who witnessed the wild celebrations of last spring will...
...every pleasant day the nine will be out on Holmes or Jarvis practising before empty benches. Let all who have the success of the nine at heart go out and fill these benches, and thereby encourage the candidates to do their best for themselves and for the college, Then if we win we can take some of the credit of victory to ourselves; if we lose, we can feel that we deserved to lose, that we were outplayed. There is no disgrace in defeat if every effort has been made to secure victory...
...speaking of the requirements for good acting, Mr. Irving said, "Success does not depend upon a few lessons in declamation, nor upon a study of the tradition of characters; nothing can be worse than a traditional way of interpretation. It is not the attitude nor the tone which is to be studied. You must impersonate; you must not recite. It has been the custom in England to demand a false inflection in tragedy, while naturalism is demanded in comedy. It is not the measured recitation of a long speech, but a short sentence which is often the more effective. Garrick...