Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Union Prize debate which took place last evening in Sever 11 was a great success and attracted a large audience. Although each man was limited to a speech of five minutes, the fact that twenty-seven men competed made the meeting a very long one, and the result was not announced till some time after ten o'clock. The question for debate was: RESOLVED, That a young man casting his first vote in 1892 has better reasons for voting the Republican than the Democratic Ticket...
...dangerous problems - "The Spectator and the Professional." In a brief article of some two pages and a half, Mr. Camp thoroughly analyzes the relation which the spectator and the professional bear to amateur athletics in general and foot ball in particular. He considers the spectator the bane to the success of well-intended athletic legislation because with spectators victory counts for so much more than methods that they are more apt to forget small deceits about qualification and look too leniently upon infringement of rules...
...less tangible divisions. An organism of culture, in other words is, or should be, the goal of modern advances in all branches of knowledge. In seeking the best methods for reaching such an end, we instinctively look at the past, in order to profit by its errors and success. And we find, at last, that the middle ages were truly times of origin, since they give us the virtual starting-points of modern society, art, philosophy, and culture in general. The middle ages saw a great mingling of races and they produced a new race with new ideas of these...
...betrayed the confidence. - (1) Of his associates, Gladstone and Morley: Nation, 4 Dec. 1890, pp. 431 and 434. - (2) Of thousands of Irish people who had left homes on promise of immediate aid: Nation, 1 Jan. 1891. - (3) Of his whole party by risking their success for his own pleasure: Nation...
...have a certainity of one seat apiece? It is no answer to say that many are not satisfied with one. At present nobody, save a favored few, is sure of one seat; it is a scramble in which private influence and the largest purse alone can command success...