Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exclusively of the best oars of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. This will be the first American eight-oared crew to visit England and row in England's greatest regatta at Henley, although several four-oared amateur crews of this country have in past years competed in England with varying success...
...salvation to unbelievers, and proceeds upon the basis that all men are conceived in sin. The religion of India, on the other hand, is built upon the foundation of of good and truth in every man. This kind of missionary work, if it were universal, could not fail of success...
...promises very well for the success of the Memorial Day exercises that plans for them are already under consideration. In past years Harvard men have not made as much of Memorial Day as they should. Harvard's participation in the Civil War and the record of her sons who fell in it, are things which ought always to be kept proudly in remembrance. To the years of the war more sentiment naturally attaches than to any other period in the history of the University; yet students are apt to forget the significance of the tablets erected in Memorial Hall...
During the fourth and last week of his stay at the Hollis Mr. John Drew will present Henry Guy Carleton's comedy, "The Butterflies," which was given its initial presentation at the same house last season with marked success. The comedy deals with several interesting social types, and has for its hero a spendthrift Bostonian who rescues a young lady from drowning, and then falls desperately in love with her. The girl's mother repulses the penniless suitor, his creditors pursue him, and he is kept in a peck of trouble, but wins the girl of his choice of course...
...Jonson's "Silent Woman" in Sanders Theatre yesterday was undoubtedly one of the most unique that has been seen upon any stage in America. Though its interest was rather a literary and historical than a strictly dramatic one, yet the presentation was in every way a great success...