Word: successful
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...games of the Amateur Athletic Union announced for January 19 at the Madison Square Garden. New York, promise to be an unprecedented success. There are about six hundred entries including a number of college men for the fourteen events. In the 75-yards dash alone there are one hundred and nine contestants, and among them, Robinson of Yale. Harmar, of Yale, will compete with seventy-four other athletes in the mile run. The entries for the running high jump number forty-seven, and among them is the name of Shearman of Yale. In the half-mile run, Harmar, of Yale...
...congratulate the Conference Francaise on the vigor and life it is showing in getting ready for the stage a short comedy by Jules Moineau. In doing this it is following the excellent and successful precedent of last year, when this formerly almost dormant society blossomed forth into one of the most active of literary societies at Harvard. The successful performance of last year gave a great boom to the society, and its immediate result was a large increase in the number of members, all taking a great interest in the welfare and progress of the society. We trust that this...
...Club house is assurance of that. With the warm support of the crew and the college, which we are confident he will well deserve, Mr. Herrick will have a chance to turn out an eight that will retrieve the fortunes of past years. We heartily wish him the best success in his work...
...generally been the custom of the members of the editorial boards of college journals to manifest towards the institutions of sister colleges the respect which courtesy, if nothing else, demands. In addition, it has been the custom that whatever may have been the success of the efforts of the students of sister colleges in the various branches of college life, to give credit at least for sincerity of purpose. A breach of this rule has recently been made by the edition of a college publication, namely, the Columbia Spectator-a breach so glaring as to demand our attention...
...head of "Wah! Wah! Wah! Harvard," is published in the last number of the Spectator, a piece of writing remarkable for its unprecedented character, in that it is a discourteous, ignorant, and even vulgar attack upon Harvard methods in athletics. Worse than the sneer at Harvard's ill-success of the last three years, is the implied accusation of insincerity on the part of the of the leaders in athletics. We do not wish further to characterize the article in question. Harvard men may read it for themselves...