Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...equal terms for world's commerce.-(1) Ships can be bought at lowest price.-(b) Carrying trade should not be sacrificed to shipbuilding.-(1) It employs fifty times as many men: Kelley, Question of Ships, p. 31.-(c) American shipbuilding not seriously affected.-(1) Only iron ships concerned.-(d) Success of plan well illustrated by Germany's policy: D. A. Wells, as above...
...Glee Club gives concerts at Andover for the benefit of her football team and why we send coaches for the nine, while Exeter is "entirely neglected." So far as the Glee Club is concerned, let me say that the Andover concert was given by invitation, an invitation which the success of the last Andover concert, as well as the pressing need of the football team, made us very glad to accept...
...contest with Yale has been the chief incentive to strenuous training, and this incentive is now taken away. As a substitute for it in baseball, the attempt is being made to get two games this spring with the Princeton freshmen. The attempt, we hope, will meet with success. The freshman nine has always been a most valuable means of developing material for the University team, and the latter would be sure to suffer if the ball players in Ninety-eight were discouraged at the beginning of their career. This point of view, however, makes too little of the disappointment...
...listening to Professor Shaler in the discussion of any subject in geology is an enviable one, for his reputation as a geologist is national. The Natural History Society is to be highly congratulated on securing him to introduce its course of lectures. Nothing could contribute more to their deserved success...
...very promising set of men through inadequate coaching, is seriously to be regretted. In former years a similar difficulty has often been thought to explain the failure of our freshman crews at New London, and it would be a great pity to endanger once more a good chance of success by any harmful neglect in coaching...