Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Success in everything to which he applied himself was his characteristic, and well-merited success, earned by patient and persevering labor. As a student, or as an athlete, this earnestness of purpose showed itself, and the result was always satisfactory. For this reason, we cannot but feel that his loss is a real loss, not only to the present, but to the future. No man in college had a future more promising of good work, and the career cut short so early, would surely have been one the world could ill afford to lose...
...feel sure that their loss, both to ourselves and Harvard journalism will be severely felf. Starting as the youngest board upon the new paper, for it will be remembered that the HERALD was founded in '84's sophomore year, '84 has worked hard and earnestly for the success of a daily at Harvard, and whatever success may have been attained is due largely to their efforts...
...river. Eight men in a boat, moving backward and forward with machine-like regularity, all with caps corresponding to the colors of their oars, present a fine sight. Each of the three upper class crews entertain great hopes of victory, and take every opportunity to improve its chines of success. These three crews are so evenly matched that it would be rash to prophesy any order in which they will come in. The crew which, during the next week, makes the greatest improvement...
...necessity for floods of light in the interior. Yet there is beauty in the result-architectural beauty of the strictest kind, though no atom of that 'picturesqueness' which popular criticism falsely considers its equivalent." Of Sever Hall, the writer remarks, "that there is much more originality in its quiet success than in many more striking works, and that the introduction of the great round-arched doorway gives a grateful touch of piquancy to the whole. Moreover, Sever Hall is especially instructive, because, though it is excellent, admirable and beautiful, it is not picturesque...
...most prominent and most interesting English writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. As such a course would undoubtedly be both interesting and instructive, we hope the rest of the lectures will be given if possible. The time of the year is not as favorable for the success of a voluntary course of lectures as it would have been earlier in the season, but nevertheless, we think that if the gentleman decides to give another talk on the subject of English reading, a sufficient number of men will attend to recompense him for his trouble...