Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor Drummond and words spoken by some of the preachers to the University have led to a desire on the part of a number of students to make some effort toward helping to uplift the lives of the masses in the great city so near us. Encouraged by the success of meetings addressed by Rev. Phillips Brooks, which were held in Faneuil Hall last winter under the auspices of the Trinity Club, they have decided to try a similar work in another part of Boston. A petition signed by about fifty men and reading as follows has been handed...
...evening and considered with pleasure the proposition signed by you. We entirely agree with your sugg stion and are ready to undertake a series of five meetings in Boston. We do this with a full sense of the significance and seriousness of such a movement, and we feel that success will be best obtained by committing all details to the students themselves. We should think it best to hold these meetings as soon as they can be conveniently arranged. Each of us stand ready to give such assistance and advice as he can personally offer, but we all desire...
...programme to be presented by the Pierian Sodality at the concert in Association Hall on Monday evening promises to be a great success...
...Yale and Princeton has a natural tendency to diminish the interest in this game; but there is every prospect that this will be a last and interesting opportunity of seeing what excellent work our eleven can do. The enthusiasm which is so prevalent in college, and the expectations for success which are now so high in everybody's mind, ought not to slacken merely because the team we are to play is known not to be very strong. Go out, every man, and cheer our gallant players, and show them what confidence you have in the work they will...
...There has never before been such a thorough feeling of doubt as to the abilities of an athletic team. The fact that there will be two important games this year instead of one, has added much to the interest, and has also added much to the doubts of our success...