Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tried to kill him, and he withdrew to settle in a new place with his followers. The dwellers in the new village were placed under strict pledges to abstain from idleness and vice, and a model town soon grew up. Another proof of capabilities of the natives is the success of the schools established from the scanty appropriations of the United States, When the first school was opened in Sitka over one hundred boys appeared, eager to be educated, and within a month three hundred adults had also asked permission to attend. When winter came many of the pupils slept...
...course in journalism which was this year added to the list of electives at Cornell, has just been completed, and following are the opinions of the men who took the course as to the good to be acquired from it. One says: "I believe the success of the course in journalism has been decided enough to justify and encourage its repetition, with such modifications and improvements as experience has shown to be necessary. I think that certain changes should be made, however, and a short course should be made a complete success before any attempt at a very extended course...
...first of the winter meetings held on Saturday may be called only a fair success. So large a percentage of all the events were walkovers that the meeting could not fail to be deprived of much of the interest which it otherwise would have had. The entries in wrestling and boxing matches were not many at best, and when so few of those entered appeared at the scratch, the feeling of just dissatisfaction among the spectators was very evident. It is a pity that the men should feel so little interested in the events in which they have entered that...
...next meeting of the club will probably be held next Thursday and if the weather is suitable, it is hoped that enough men will go up to make a success of the shoot, and not have the matches in constant danger of being closed on account of lack of interest...
...were not enough entries to make it worth while to hold the proliminary bouts. It is unfortunate that so little interest was shown in that feature of the contests, and we hope that it was not a fair example of the enthusiasm which men are to show for the success of the other meetings...