Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will read the second play which is to be given by the society in May, L'Affair de la Rue de la Lourcine. This comedy or rather farce, is one of the brightest of the small pieces written by Labiche, and if well put on cannot but be a success. There are five principal characters so it will need quite a number of men to make it a success. All who can should go tonight to hear it and see if there are parts which they think they could take. Upon the energy of the members of the society, depends...
Athletics are regarded as good for young men and young women who are pursuing a course of study, and it is even conceded that athletics should become a part of the student course, in which proficiency counts as much as success in mathematics or in the languages. At Amherst College athletics are put upon this broad and high basis, and the result is that every Amherst graduate is turned out a well developed young man, with a physical organization which will sustain him in his intellectual work. But the majority of men in middle life today were not brought...
...Athletic Club were going to organize a crew to give the Harvard 'varsity crew practice. Mr. C. P. Curtis, '83, who stroked the 'varsity for the years of '81 and '82, is at the head of the matter, and under his management the crew promises to be a great success. The crew went on the water for the first time yesterday, with the following men in the boat, all of whom rowed on the 'varsity in former years: 1, Meyer: 2. Brooks, '87; 3, Russell, '85: 4, Borland, '86; 5, Burgess, '87; 6, Bacon, '80; 7, Peabody, '79; stroke, Curtis...
...proving more than a match for it. There has long been need of some such sort of a crew, graduate coaching in many cases being better given when the coach has an oar in another boat. It is certainly to be hoped that this venture will meet with the success it deserves, and that every year there will be some such crew to give the aid only such a crew can give...
Thanks to the untiring efforts of Prof. Richards, of Yale, and to the unexpected success in collecting subscriptions, Yale's new gymnasium will soon be a reality. Mr. A. M. Dodge, Yale '74, the chairman of the committee in charge of collecting the necessary funds, announces that $110,000 have already been subscribed for the new gymnasium and $10,000 have been pledged by graduates. To secure additional subscriptions a letter has been issued to graduates in New York and from this it is hoped a large sum will result. As yet no building plans have been accepted...