Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that year the Rugby rules for football playing had just been generally adopted by the colleges of America, and it was partly to test their worth that the trip was undertaken. Results showed that the Canadian teams, with their longer acquaintance with the Rugby game, were unable to compete successfully against the Harvard men. The eleven made a brilliant record during their stay in the North, and met with a most cordial reception from their antagonists. The team from Cambridge succeeded in defeating the Magill University eleven, and then scored another hard-earned victory over the All Canada picked team...
...ourselves on our luck in weather and jollity, and then hang our "plugs" upon the wall, for it would, perhaps, be useless to try them on this morning; and then let our college life run on again in its customary channels. The great parade of '84 was a glorious success; let it be long remembered...
...manner the power of properly applied oratory. While an Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Association would be surrounded by many and great difficulties such a local organization as that proposed at present would receive immediate and enthusiastic attention. Such an enterprise cannot receive too great encouragement nor attain too high a success. We wish the club every good fortune, and feel confident that immediately upon its organization it will meet and fulfill the expectations of the many who look forward to its appearance as a Harvard institution...
...representatives, In the Andover men our team will find worthy rivals, for the eleven from that academy has not been beaten by a Harvard freshman team since the fall of 1881, Last year, and the year before, our teams returned with doleful tales of defeat, attributing their ill success to one cause or another, and making vigorous complaints about playing in a "brick-yard," the somewhat harsh tile they gave to the Andover foot ball field. From this it will be seen that Eighty-Eight has no easy task before her, and that, while only the sharpest of work...
...called to order at 7.49 P. M. with President Halbert in the chair. Sever 11 was filled long before the speakers took the floor, and great interest was manifested throughout the evening. The question before the house was: "Resolved, That the best interests of the country demand the success of the Democratic party in the coming presidential election. A secret ballot on the merits of the question resulted in a vote...