Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brown University catalogue, which will appear the first week of next term will be more than usually valuable and comprehensive this year. There will be an article treating of University Extension; for Brown as a centre for this subject has had a considerable growth and success. The catalogue will give a good deal of space to the Graduate Department. The various courses in this department will be described and the requirements noted; the Graduate department at Brown has grown a good deal lately and should receive some attention in the catalogue. The frontispiece, which is always an engraving...
...much wholesome restraint such an athletic sport exerts over new men at college, coming at the time when they are weakest. The need of good exercise is the cause of much of the danger of a university life. What could be a better preparation for morality and health and success than the hour's exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent. to his manly self-respect and ability...
...said that perseverance is as necessary for success in religion as in anything else, and it is especially necessary at Harvard where is practically no religious life. At Oxford it is very different; all the professors and dons are strong church men, and thus it is much easier to be steadfast in religious work...
...performance so complete in every way augurs well for the success of the clubs upon their Western Trip. The next concert to be given will be next Friday evening in Boston. The proceeds of this concert as well as of the one last night will be given to the University Crew. It ought not to be necessary to urge the college men to unite with the clubs in their good work and help to make the concert Friday of the greatest possible benefit to the crew...
...Sunday evening theatre services for the past two years announce that the services are to be undertaken again this winter, and appeal to Harvard men to assist again in the singing. It is to be hoped that they will receive an encouraging response These theatre services have been very successful in reaching a non-church going crowd and for this reason in particular have been a good thing. Much of their attractiveness, and consequently of their success, depends upon the singing. Harvard men have always been sufficiently interested in the meetings before to furnish a very respectable contingent...