Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...considerable agitation has been made about establishing a prescribed course of physical exercise, to count towards a degree. Such a plan, aiming to put mental and physical training on a rational basis, has undoubtedly great advantages, and on the whole seems practicable, especially as it has been tried with success in several colleges...
During his college course he returned each summer to his home at Great Barrington, and took up his duties on the farm. In the fall of 1894 he coached the Cornell University football team with remarkable success. After this he again resumed his duties at home, where he remained the greater part of the next two years, except for a brief period, when he was in Boston, in the office of Lorin F. Deland. Each year he was found ready to aid in the coaching of the different teams at Harvard, and his appearance at Cambridge was always greeted with...
...college or are in close touch with college affairs, Mr. Newell's death in particular, by its very suddenness and the horror of its form, is a calamity hard to realize and accept. His unselfish service to the University, continued without interruption after his graduation, taught successive classes of undergraduates to admire and respect him as a pattern of all that is best in the athletic side of college life, while his breadth of character, and his quiet, steady success in other fields, gave great promise of a useful career in the future...
...subscriptions received in answer to the appeal sent out for the proposed Workingmen's Reading Room on Washington street, are sufficient to warrant the success of the undertaking and the room is being made ready for the opening night immediately after the vacation...
There is no better proof of the vigor of intellectual life among Harvard students than the unflagging interest with which numerous similar clubs are maintained, and their success in bringing prominent men of learning before the University. The work is done quietly, but it is none the less valuable...