Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past few years the Phi Beta Kappa at Yale has been a non active society, but this year it is proposed that the society devote it self to a study of the problems connected with the progress and success of American political and social institutions...
...managers are very well satisfied with the success of the Commons, both as regards fare and price. About five hundred students are accommodated, and there is a waiting list of over three hundred...
...assist in them are asked to do so this year. Last year the support was not what it might have been; there was only a small number of students who had sufficient interest in the work to attend the meetings and do what they could to make them successful. These Sunday evening services are held under the management of the City Episcopal Mission of Boston, and are intended to reach the large class of people who attend no church. Last year Columbia Theatre was well filled every Sunday evening with all kinds of people, principally those of the lower class...
...interesting to look over the early history of the Cooperative Society and to note the rapid progress which has been made in the last two or three years. For a while after the foundation of the society the business transacted each year varied but slightly and the success of the scheme was by no means assured. Within the past two years, however, the management has been vastly improved and there can be no doubt now but that the society is in every way on a thoroughly sound basis. The increase of business in '91 over '90 was only...
...poems of the Celts are chiefly cynical. They have never made a success in war or politics, and naturally their poems would not be didactic or ethical. They have no humor about their poems, but in all these there is a one of sadness always prevalent and generally distinct. As the great nation was pushed back from its vast empire, and again and again suffered defeat, their spirit was not broken, but their despondence is everywhere to be seen...