Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last week the Amherst nine played a game with the Holyokes and were beaten 13 to 2. The Amherst captain is trying to develop a new man, named Keating, for pitcher; but Keating was pounded freely and did not prove a success...
...changes in the curriculum of freshman year have it seems, been a great success so far. There has been no great or unexpected rush either into or from any one department. About sixty men have dropped their Latin, about eighty their Greek, and about a hundred their mathematics. And these men are very evenly distributed, the two history courses open to them receiving the greatest number-about eighty each. This is all very pleasant, so far; history is a subject well suited to freshman year, and the instructors in Latin, Greek and Mathematics probably congratulate themselves on having...
...Royce delivers the first of his Tuesday and Friday lectures on Forensic work. The department begins the year with a complete change in man and methods. The changes in methods are not final, however, and the instructors look to still further changes if those of this year prove successful. The majority of the students, we know, look upon this last remnant of required work as a nuisance, and give it as little time and thought as possible. Still, there are many who realize that forensic work is perhaps the most practically important work, and the work bearing most directly...
...then, is this practice to be obtained? In many ways. But we at Harvard have not only many ways, but the way, and that is the practice of debate. The importance of practice in debate as a factor of success to a lawyer is so great that no one who is studying for that profession should consider his curriculum of study complete without arrangements for this practice. The Union is the chief means of obtaining this exercise here, and it ought to be attended by many more than it is. All of the speaking that a lawyer...
...boat club is to be congratulated for the complete success of the races on Saturday. The only disturbing element was a strong west wind, which made it very difficult for the long eight-oared barges to get into position without buoys, The four senior eights started off fairly well together, and dashed by the boat-house at a great rate. The crews were well matched. As they spurted along, side by side, with the oars rising and falling in measured stroke and with great regularity, they formed a very pretty sight, which was enjoyed by hundreds of spectators from...