Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...financial success of the eleven we are not yet prepared to speak. The audience at the Princeton game was gratifyingly large, but the minor games were somewhat meagerly attended...
...foot ball season has practically ended; nothing remains but for our Freshman to try their mettle against Yale. This fall we had confidently expected success in lawn tennis. At one time we had hoped for our foot ball team, but Pennsylvania, Wesleyan, Princeton and Yale were too much for us. Let us not, however, feel discouraged over the past. At lacrosse we see no reason why with hard work our team cannot retrieve their defeats of last spring. Boating is our own especial province, and it is only once within the last three years that Yale has been fortunate enough...
GERMAN LANGUAGE. -Mr. Bernhard Schroeder, who has taught his native tongue in this city for three years with the greatest success, will come a few nights in the week to Cambridge, to prepare Harvard students for the next examination. Will also take a limited number of pupils either in class, or individually, Address, 6 Park square, Boston...
...little less than a riot; hairpins were drawn on both sides, and a general scrimmage seemed unavoidable. The attacking party seemed to be overawed, however, by the superior numbers of their opponents, and withdrew in disorderly haste. With the exception of this incident the demonstration was a rousing success. The procession was an hour in passing a given point, -the dining hall, where a collation was spread. There has never been an affair of such magnitude recorded in the previous annals of the college...
...over two hundred men to make a similar journey two years ago. Is the cause to be looked for in a decrease of interest among the students in inter-collegiate games? We think not. Rather let us ascribe the smallness of the number to the slimmer chances of success. Two years ago Harvard had played a tie game with Princeton, and when the game with Yale came the men were enthusiastic and went to New Haven. The game there, played in the rain, was won by Yale by the lowest possible score allowed by the rules. This year our chances...