Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Almost everything that goes to make an athletic meeting a success in the ordinary sense of the word was wanting at the meeting yesterday afternoon. To begin with, the weather was unfavorable. The afternoon was cold and raw and the heavy rains for the two days before had left the track in a deplorable condition, - any attempt at fast time being practically out of the question. There were certain regrettable flaws in the conduct of the meeting, - no announcing, for instance, being done at any time. The crowd which gathered to see the games was small - Harvard's delegation...
...musical clubs are to be congratulated on the success of their concert last evening. The performance which they gave shows what an amount of hard work will do with musical clubs made up wholly of college men. In viewing the concert critically this very point must be remembered that those who compose the clubs are amateur, very amateur musicians who have countless other things to do in college beside getting ready for a concert. To expect the Glee Club to rival the Apollo Club or to be disappointed because the Pierian does not come up to the standard...
...other feature of the concert, the dancing in Memorial Hall, ought to be made an important and enjoyable feature. The efforts which were made at the winter concert to elevate the tone of this part of the program were attended with gratifying success. The dances, however, are still not all that they should be, and every effort should be made this evening to make the dance which follows the glee club concert in Cambridge up to the level of those which accompany the concerts given in Jamaica Plain or Brookline...
...Tassin was a little hurried and melodramatic in his delivery, but he gave the conversation in his selection with good success...
...Black finished last evening his course of lectures on English literary writers. Coming from the University of Edinburgh with the highest recommendations from prominent men of the continent as well as of England, professors of mathematics and philosophy as well as of literature, it is pleasing to notice the success that he has won as shown by the large audiences which he has attracted at each lecture. Mr. Black has shown himself to be well acquainted with the literature of his country and the influence which the men on whom he has lectured have had upon it While...