Word: successful
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...college feeling and who are known for their sound judgment, do not seem to us clear or considerate of the best interests of the university. The committee state that they see no reason to change their opinions of last year, and that they are satisfied that their action was successful in so far as it went. We confess that we do not see in what it can be called successful, except in making the nine a failure and a disgrace to Harvard College. But the committee, though they agree the nine was not a success, think that it failed...
...that of Yale's former elevens. With Princeton however, they scored actually less than our team did although their defensive game was much more effective. Taking this into account if we were able to place our best team in the field we would have no need to despair of success. As it is, nothing but indomitable spirit and grit, can save us and the best wishes of the entire college go with the team that our men may be equal to the emergency...
...multitude it ends in irremediable waste. To myself, trained in the system for years, and training others in it for years being one of those who succeeded in it, if that amount of progress which has been thought worthy of high classical honors in two university may be called success-influenced, therefore, by every conceivable prejudice of authority, experience and personal vanity in its favor. I can only give my emphatic conclusion that every year the practice of it appears to me increasingly deplorable, and the theory of it every year increasingly absurd...
...know) no other civilized nation attaches any importance, yet which leaves us to borrow our scholarship second-hand from them; which is now necessary for the very highest classical honors at the University of Cambridge alone; in which only one has a partial glimmering of success for lumdreds and hundreds who inevitable fail; and in which the few exceptional successes are so flagrantly useless that they can only be regarded at the best as a somewhat trivial and fantastic accomplishment an accomplishment so singularly barren of all results that it has scarcely produced a dozen original poems on which...
...Total Abstinence League is to be congratulated on the success attending its meeting yesterday afternoon in Sever11. A large number of students were present and the generous applause bestowed on the speakers showed conclusively the deep interest taken in the proceedings. The moral and physical evils of intemperance were clearly and effectively stated by Ex-Gov. St. John of Kansas, Col. Bain of Kentucky and Hon. John B. Finch of Nebraska...