Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard as a body of men, young and old, mature and immature working for a common end. As he looked at it, we had made our astronomical discoveries, we had taken our photographs at the station in Peru, we had made our touchdown in the football game. The success of one was the success and the joy of all. This feeling he retained even when his work took him to another state and there was probably no day in which his mind did not turn at least a dozen times to the college as the centre of his hopes...
Always loving, reliable, and true, Dr. Peabody lent a helping hand to hundreds of whom the world will never know. He lived for others and for God Himself; and surely there is no success like that with which his life was crowned...
...give an exhibition next Saturday. A week is a very short time to put men into condition for such an event, hence we would urge particularly those who have had experience in this line of gymnastics to come forward and do what they can to make the scheme a success. There ought to be at least a large number of candidates, whether new or old. The more there are the greater the chance that the right men may be found...
There were several innovations in the second winter meeting on Saturday which had much to do with its success. The management broke away from the conventional list of events of past indoor meetings and introduced performances, which were interesting not only because of their novelty but because of the excel lent manner in which they were carried out. Such events were the ladders and double trapeze. They were exhibitions rather than contests and from the point of view of the spectator, lost nothing in interest because the performers were not pitted against each other in actual competition. The tendency...
...field of literature, on the ground that the stage rightfully belongs to Art and Letters alone. Henry B. McDowel of the class of '78 is president of the organization and Barret Wendell, Bliss Carman and other Harvard men are actively interested. The experiment has been tried with success in New York and the company is now on a tour, the express purpose of which is to test whether of not the public and be interested in so called "literary plays". The first performance tonight will, to a great extent, prove the success of the venture in Boston. "The Squirrel...