Word: successful
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...progresses the maneuvers will become more and more complicated, so that the final condition of the column will be as chaotic as the most conservative could wish. At any rate, let us all take hold with a will, irrespective of our political creeds, and make this demonstration a complete success. It is the last chance most of us will have of marching in the Harvard brigade, and we have but ourselves to blame if the occasion is not a most memorable one in our college lives...
There will be a debate this evening at the Harvard Union. The question is : "Do the best interests of the country demand the success of the Democratic party in the coming Presidential election ?" The speakers on the affirmative are, H. M, Sewall, L. S. and O. R. Hansen '85; negative, C. R. Saunders, L. S. and E. T. Sanford...
...Dining Association has on the whole been a decided success this year. There have been occasional causes for complaint, such as the streak of bad butter two or three weeks since, the over-flavored ice cream a few days ago and others, doubtless, that did not affect the whole hall. Only constant vigilance on the part of the directors, and a willingness to learn from such mistakes on the part of the steward, can prevent these mishaps. Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families, whether they number 8 or 800. The students do not realize what a big thing...
...success of the hall depends to no small extent on the members themselves. The two things that have hurt the hall more, perhaps, than any others have been a failure on the part of members to make just complaints, and indiscriminate fault-finding. At $4.25 a week personal supervision cannot extend to the food and service of 720 boarders, and a member can do the management no greater favor than to report at once and fairly, any just cause for complaint. But unreason-fault-finding merely spoils the waiters and sets every one on edge...
...work has been received with praise and bids fair to attain a large circulation. The method of translation which Prof. Palmer has employed is certainly an experiment and the success of the volume will depend largely upon the success of this experiment. If we may judge, however, from the criticisms which have already been passed upon it, there is little chance of the experiment proving a failure...