Word: successful
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...members and that a perfectly fair decision will be given goes without saying. The members of the old Union interested in the reorganization of the society have gone about their work with good judgment and commendable fairness. There is every reason to believe that their efforts will meet with success. Good notice has been given of the subject of the debate and ample time for preparation. The competition is open to all, and hence the choice of the picked twelve will doubtless represent the best speaking talent in the university. There is no argument why it should not, for there...
...different departments, will be a source; of no little satisfaction to all who have carefully watched the results of our elective system. Those who were at first fearful of the effect of such a system on Harvard, have, year by year, seen the plan emerging from doubtful to certain success until now there are hardly any grounds on which the workings of the system can be said to be unsatisfactory...
Jealousy at the success of his Homer drew out much adverse comment from minor writers, and to crush them. Pope wrote his Dunciad. His epistles, moral essays and satires occupied his last fourteen years. His Essay on Man, although never regarded as of any philosophical value, shows well in its grace and smoothness of diction, the powers of the poet. His last years were given to didactic satires, in which he is without a rival...
...serious importance have arisen in the University till lately. The reconsideration of the vote of the Faculty, in regard to the Freshman Musical Clubs, was welcome to to the college as an evidence of the fair mindedness of the Faculty. The football game was encouraging in its promise of success in the future, and, if certain features of the game were objectionable, the sentiment of the college was clearly expressed at the time. The question of intercollegiate athletics is at present the absorbing topic, and, now that Yale has finally taken her stand, we hope that affairs can be amicably...
...games on Saturday were a marked success in every way, and the great interest taken in them was seen by the large audience and enthusiasm with which they greeted the winners in each event. The number of competitors was larger than last year and the records of Saturday can be very favorably compared with those of a year ago. Great credit is to be given the management for the promptness in starting each event; there was no delay or unnecessary hitch to mar the pleasure of the evening. Among all the events, none, perhaps, attracted so much attention...