Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have some special fitness for the position without regard to personal popularity. It is not necessary, of course, to urge the present senior class to throw aside all personal feeling in the voting for these officers, as the class well knows that upon their selection depends the success of that most important day in the college course-class...
...greatest value and should be taken advantage of by a much larger number of men than has been the case in the past. While the Union this year has shown signs of great activity, and while we do not doubt that it will continue to be a success, still we think that there are many ways in which it could be improved. In the first place we think that it should return to the old custom of having books upon the reserved shelves in the alcove of the reserved shelves in the alcove of the library devoted to the society...
...boat that the crew was finally selected only about three weeks before the Columbia race. Yet it has very generally been conceded that in point of style and finish the crew of 1883 was inferior to no eight Harvard has ever had. The experiment certainly seemed a success. This year a new plan has been adopted,-a compromise between the old one of training the whole year and that tried last year of training for only six months. Up to Christmas the candidates for the crew are to meet three times a week, twice to row under the able coaching...
...good old custom, since the beginning of the season about the weakness of their freshman eleven, can not be trusted at all, and their recent victories show the unreliability of all such tales. We would again repeat then that work must be done, and faithfully done, if success attend '87. They have received one lesson ; another would not be so trifling...
...first of the series of Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre was a great success in point of the size of the audience. The programme was a very interesting one, as the selections were made from at least three different schools of modern music, and gave a splendid opportunity for comparison and contrast. The Egmont overture was perhaps a little fast; it is a notable fact that the works of the older masters are not given with the same fire or care as the modern ones. It is a natural consequence of the present lack of competition in orchestra concerts...