Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such magnitude and importance in astronomy as the professors who are about to start south have undertaken. They will be gone two years, devoting much of their time to the study of the condition of the heavens in South America. Such an undertaking certainly deserves the best of success, and we trust it may achieve all the good results it hopes to bring about...
...university teams in the last five years, literally speaking, to go begging. In the class of '87, there were men fitted by health and strength to lead the crew to victory, but who refused to sit in the boat and so refused with impunity. Neither the anticipation of success nor a feeling of honor on the subject had sufficient power to bring them back to hard training. And these were the kind of men who, lacking the incentive of a frugal life, had the means to indulge thoroughly in the opposite, and through whom the repute of extravagance has fastened...
...results from the best material in the land, that a college devoted to extravagance cannot be a dwelling house of strength and the, letic skill, and that hard work on the part of some and strong interest and support on the part of the rest will alone bring the success that is looked for as a necessity. The blessings of such a spirit in college life cannot pass unperceived, and the method to attain them is as plain...
...before. His adherents then said that he was not really dead, but would return again and complete his work as El Mahdi, "he who is guided by God." Many have taken this title, but all have eventually met with defeat and death. The present Mahdi owes his success to a series of fortunate accidents, and to the fanaticism of the country where he has appeared. The intelligent Moslems, however, believe that he is only a clever adventurer, who would speedily be crushed by a disciplined army...
...book has been placed at Leavitt and Peince's for the signature of those who ??? to accompany the eleven to Princeton next Saturday. It seems almost needless for us to urge every man who possibly can, to go with the team; but we feel so positively that the success of the eleven in the contest with Princeton will depend largely on the support the college gives it, that we can not help saying an earnest word in hopes that it may influence those who are levitating whether to go or no. The team has been very unfortunate in losing valuable...