Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...training table; from time to time additional men will be taken as they prove their right to the honor. This really marks the beginning of the training of the team, although as we all know the squads have been working faithfully since the Christmas vacation. The almost unparalleled success which Harvard has met with in track athletics during the last fourteen or fifteen years has a tendency to inspire over confidence, a misfortune the evil consequences of which we may some day bitterly realize. Just why we have had so much success, is perfectly plain. In the first place there...
...season which will open at the beginning of the new term the value of this trip will be very apparent, even if only a portion of victories fall to our share. Whatever the outcome may be, let the nine be assured of the hearty good wishes for success which every member of the University sincerely feels for them...
...direction in which careful coaching is particularly necessary. The nine is composed of men who are as good individually at least, as any other lot of nine men picked from one college. We shall probably have as coach Colonel Winslow, to whose effort a great part of the success of last year's nine is due. We start the season then very auspiciously and improvement ought to be rapid. The games on the spring trip are with strong nines, which will give the team excellent practice, one may expect then that the faults now so apparent will be far less...
...plan of producing a Latin play next year will doubtless arouse wide spread interest, particularly after the marked success of the Greek play which was given in 1881. That was the first production of its kind in America and it attracted to Cambridge probably the most distinguished gathering of literary people ever assembled at one time. People flocked from all parts and paid fabulous prices for seats. The press of the country gave long accounts of it and London papers even went so far as to have the news cabled to them. The event marked an important period at Harvard...
...wonderful success which attended the efforts of the Greek department encouraged the projectors of the scheme to hope that something similar might be given at a later date. They conceived then the idea of producing a Latin play, but it seemed too much of an attempt after the experience they had just undergone and only recently has the plan matured. It is, in a way, a stupendous undertaking. The average person can little realize the difficulties which are ever presenting themselves. The point which has constantly to be kept in mind is to give as exact a reproduction...