Word: successful
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...Shaler, and Joseph Lovering, and Rev. A. Brooks. Mr. VanDyke condemned college athletics as gladiatorial, and as consisting of a large proportion of contest, with a small proportion of athletics; but Mr. Depew, the next speaker, suggested that this view was largely due to the recent ill-success of Princeton and Harvard. Among those present were Rev. F. G. Peabody, Wendell Goodwin, and many other prominent graduates...
...false statements which have appeared in many papers regarding the records of championships in the foot-ball league. The errors have come largely from ungrounded claims made in the Yale papers, and it will be strange if at the meeting of Yale men to celebrate Yale's success in athletics, tomorrow night, such claims will not be still more recklessly put forth. We have shown repeatedly how false and misleading these claims are, especially in the form in which they are circulated, but we have not been able to prevent the acceptance of them by college papers and the general...
...assembled in Sever Hall, Saturday afternoon. Mr. F. B. Vrooman was chosen chairman and Mr. E. B. Delabarre, secretary. Mr. Delabarre then stated the object of the movement, saying that the main purpose was to correct wrong impressions of Harvard at the colleges and to testify to the success of the present system...
...there has been at any time a feeling that these meetings were not a success, were not fulfilling the object for which they were intended, it must now have disappeared. The meeting of Tuesday evening was of the greatest use in enabling the students to see the hitherto obnoxious and ill-understood recommendations of the Overseers in a much more satisfactory light...
...this year from a state of torpor to activity, one of the most progressive is the Chess and Whist Club. After a close and interesting tournament, in which all members of the University were invited to contest, the club has started a whist tournament which promises to be equally successful. The proposed chess match with an outside club will also be watched with interest by the college. We congratulate the club upon its enterprise and success, which show that other scientific games, besides the various branches of athletic sports, have a firm foot-hold at Harvard...