Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...report of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women shows, as usual, a most flourishing condition of affairs. In the words of the report: "The work of the twelfth year calls for little comment. It has followed faithfully the lines laid down from the beginning, but with increasing success...
...that the success of the modern tendencies in Cambridge is, in the main, assured, the University and the country owe a debt of gratitude to the man who started the college on its new career of progress. Dr. Hill had a mind of remarkably strong original power, and came to see early in life that the great need of modern education was some method of imparting to the pupil power and knowledge, as well as learning. When he came to preside over Harvard College he immediately instituted reforms with this end in view. He caused examination papers...
...Hill was born in New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 7, 1818. His father was a tanner, and at one time served as judge of the court of common pleas. Dr. Hill was left an orphan at a very early age, and his success in after life was due entirely to his own efforts. When twelve years old he was apprenticed to a printer for three years. After he had served his term, he attended the Lower Dublin Academy near Philadelphia for a year, and then was apprenticed to an apothecary in New Brunswick for another twelvemonth. In 1839 he entered...
...Harvard rush-line was not doing any effective blocking and Lake made two tries at line-breaking with no success. On the third down Trafford made the usual point which McCormick caught fairly on the 35-yard line. Winter and Bliss both tried to get between Waters and Emmons, but the latter threw them each time...
...case. The individual work of the Yale eleven seemed to be, and was, brilliant. But what really gave it the appearance of overmatching Harvard's individual play was the strength of the team work which was the ground work of everything and the secret of Yale's signal success. A Harvard opinion would be that the Harvard eleven, trained to the beautiful team game which Yale showed, would have been superior to the Yale eleven with equally good team work...