Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that all former members will promptly renew their membership, in order that the number may be brought immediately to the working point. The men of the lower classes, who have several years of college life and of college expenses before them, have a particularly strong interest in the continued success of the society, and should renew their connection with it as promptly as they can. A great many men will be at the office of the society this morning in order to get tickets for the athletic meeting, and will then have a convenient opportunity of becoming members. We urge...
...departure in athletics is to be tried at Columbia. The presence in college of many excellent baseball players has suggested that baseball might be made a success. A mass meeting of the students was held on Thursday to form a permanent association for the support of a nine. Fifty men pledged themselves to train for the team, and a suitable building for practice, until spring, will be obtained as soon as possible...
...Princeton Assembly held its first cotillion Feb. 19. The project promises to be a success...
...Yale will make any attempt at union nearly impossible. Whether we call Harvard and Yale universities or only college like the rest, they are so much larges, and their stake in the matter is so much greater, and the competition between them so much keener, that for the success of an inter-collegiate athletic code the support of both is required...
...there is one fact more striking than another in the remarkable history of the University Club, it is the fact that from the very first all distinctions between colleges have been ignored. To this I attribute in a large measure its wonderful success. The question has been: "Is he a good man?"-not, "What is his college?" I think that I can see the growth from year to year of a catholic spirit which naturally distinguishes the University from the College, and which eradicates gradually from its members the petty prejudices which too often vex the souls of undergraduates. Starting...