Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last the long-expected Elective Pamphlet has appeared. From a typographical point of view, it can hardly be called a success. By a mistake of the printer, the pamphlet appears under the title, "Account of the Graduate Department." The paper, also, is of very inferior quality. In fact it compares unfavorably with that of last year...
...Boston Advertiser upon the system of voluntary attendance at religious services, the writer, after giving a brief history of the experiment at Harvard and after quoting testimony given by Professor Peabody in the Monthly and by Rev. D. N. Beach in the June Andover Review, showing the full success of the experiment, adds this conclusion: "The testimony of these exceptionally competent witnesses confirms the evidence which comes from many other sources, and it is to this effect. The attendance, although voluntary, has been good. The vesper services have been thronged. There never was more religious life and activity at Harvard...
Professor John K. Paine achieved a great success at the recent Cincinnati May festival in the production of his new cantata, "A Song of Promise." Theodore Thomas says concerning this composition: "There is no living composer who can produce such a work, not even Rubenstein...
...interesting to note that neither age, weight or height have any decided advantage, the oldest crews having won six times out of twelve, the lightest seven times out of twelve, and the shortest six times out of ten. It would seem that the qualities that bring success are not to be mathematically computed...
...right side, and so we warn the nine that only the most careful individual and team playing can win. We have a good nine, and we want that championship this year. We heartily congratulate the nine on its past work and wish it the same success in the games to come...