Word: successful
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...Foxcroft Club which will begin the new year with the brightest prospects. The organization of the Foxcroft Club and the Co-operative Society have been the two most preeminent efforts made during the last decade to reduce the expenses of the students. That both organizations have met with remarkable success has been due to the co-operative nature of the schemes. The management, supervised by both student and faculty representatives, has been careful, yet energetic and eminently progressive. The needs of the students demand an enlargement of the schemes. We hope the opportunity of making this enlargement will...
...inspire this confidence and such as future Harvard teams would do well to follow. It is by such earnest work, and not by the mere playing of Intercollegiate games, that the standard of athletics at Harvard is to be raised and to which we look for our future success...
...just issued two new books sold only on subscription. One of them is a "History of Freemasonry," written by 81 of the most distinguished Masons in the world. The other is the "History of the Farmers' Alliance," written by the leaders in the Order. Agents are meeting with splendid success in the sale of both of these books. To the right men The Fraternity Publishing Co. will pay a generous salary or commission or both...
...broad culture of a true university. It is this university culture and training which teaches you to adopt a wider course, to consider your business in a broader way, to recollect the world and to think of society. But do not misunderstand the meaning of the words "public success." Again it is the University which points out to you the difference between quality and quantity of approval; which tells you to have a calm confidence and buoyant enthusiasm and to do your duty for duty's sake. Remember that some of our noblest spirits are not those whose names...
There is another great lesson which the University teaches-the overthrow of the doctrine of fatalism. This age is one of such great success and interest in physical things that many elements have emphasized the power of circumstances and the strength of chances. Now these theories, which are cherished by the public and nursed by weak minded men are most fatal and are the very ones which the teachings of the University tend to destroy. "The University is the last place to weaken faith in the worth of character" and is the place above all others to strengthen the belief...