Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last year's ill success has caused an investigation of the present system of Athletics at Princeton. An undergraduate committee has been appointed to confer with the Faculty and consider the advisability of adopting some features of the Yale system...
...fear of a repetition of last year's accident, as a new platform has been built capable of sustaining any crowd that can get upon it. The boat club evidently intends to make this the aquatic event of the season and everything will be done to insure a complete success. A large number of men should enter at once and by their promptness second the efforts of the officers of the club...
...will materially lessen the price of board. The Directors realized that certain inconveniences will attend this new arrangement, but as the benefits derived will so far outweigh these inconveniences, that they would call upon all members to cooperate with them, and make the hall a greater success than ever...
Among the pleasant institutions of Harvard the Glee Club has long held a foremost rank. We all take pride in its success and attend with pleasure its concerts which, however, unfortunately occur at infrequent intervals. The honor of being a member of the club should be sufficient inducement to cause a large number of candidates to present themselves tonight at the trial for new members. The officers of the association are especially anxious that all '88 men who can sing should attend. When it is remembered that the candidates are not required to sing an elaborate solo but are selected...
...report of the president of the association, Mr. T. Jefferson Coolidge, '84, contains so much information and so many valuable suggestions in regard to the H. A. A., that we print below some extracts from it. "We cannot look forward to continued success in general athletics without a good out-of-door trainer, and it should be the first duty of the executive committee, after their election, to get the best possible man for the place. Such a man can be found near at hand, if the consent of the athletic committee is obtained, inasmuch as the corporation will give...