Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...arrangements for the Harvard-Yale debate are being completed in a most satisfactory fashion and there is every reason to expect that the debate will meet with good success. The introduction of judges will add a much greater interest to the debate, for it will then be more of an actual contest. The managers of the debate have shown good judgement in appealing to the support of graduate classes and it is pleasing to note the interest which graduates have evinced in the matter. The proposition to limit the competitors for the next debate to members of the Union...
...Year's address. He said, who of us has not heard this voice of the tempter? To some just starting out in life it is the voice of pleasure, of self, of indulgence; to others the voice of liberty and independence, and to others still the voice of success. To the first the tempter says now is the time, pleasure like champagne, drink it quick when you can best appreciate it; to the second, why be trammelled by laws and obedience, do as you please; to the third nothing succeeds like success. The only kings are the rail-road-kings...
...breakfast at the Auditorium the Clubs left for Milwaukee, arriving there in time for dinner and a tea at Mrs. Abbott's. This tea was delightful in every way, many of the men renewing the acquaintance of friends whom they had met last year. The concert was a great success. At half past ten the Deutscher Club opened its doors to the men and received them with a hospitality never to be forgotten. About sixty men sat at a long oak table on which were served true German dishes and beer. Stories and songs gave wings to time till about...
...bring some of the benefits of church attendance to the large class of persons who are habitually nonchurch-goers, who cannot be induced to enter a church, though they will attend religious services if held in a place with which they are familiar. The services have been very successful. The test of their success has been necessarily one of numbers, for, as the limits of the work preclude parish relations, the chief indication that persons have been reached must be the fact that they attend. Each year the class has been materially the same - respectable tradesmen, mechanics and shop-women...
...twenty first of December a meeting was called at the reading rooms of the Lawrence Scientific School, of many students interested in electricity, for the purpose of reviving the Harvard Electric Club founded in '88. This club through faculty management had not been a success, and as it seemed a pity that the interests of the students of electricity should not be united, P. W. Davis called a meeting for the object above stated...