Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...apart a certain proportion of the tables as club tables, and conduct the rest on the hotel system. This would furnish just the experiment desired, and would give an excellent opportunity to try the two systems side by side. If the hotel system should not be a success it would be easy to return to the plan of fixed seats, and in that case the Corporation would at once proceed to the erection of another hall...
...events were on the whole very closely contested, and the audience was large and enthusiastic. the meeting was smoothly conducted, the waits being, with few exceptions, short, so that all the events but the pole vault were over by half past five; in fact the meeting was an unqualified success from every point of view...
...general training table system which was begun early this spring seems to have worked admirably. It was a thoroughly practical plan; and its managers have carried it through with a success which is gratifying. The association, as we may term it, has one need which the members of the graduating class are especially fitted to supply. It is the want of pictures, rugs, and other comfortable furniture at the training table rooms. All the men leaving Cambridge are reminded of this need, and are urged to give from their abundant stock of such articles, to the association...
...resignation of St. Mark's, however, in the winter of 1888-89, the association was left with but two schools in it, and the prospect of future success was not bright. At this juncture several Harvard men came forward, noticeably G. S. Mandell '89, then captain of the Mott Haven team, and R. S. Hale '91, one of the formers of the original association. and reorganized the association on a larger scale. Money was raised for a cup, the association was made really representative of the New England schools, and in the spring of 1889 the first meeting...
...extraordinary amount of good material which has come to Harvard in track athletics has been largely brought out and strengthened by the annual meetings of the association. Last year many records were broken; and the interest since that time has seemed to quicken in proportion to the increasing success of the games. The sports to be held on Saturday ought, therefore, to be of greater success than ever before. Harvard men who are directly interested in the association have consented to give their help as officers of the meeting. The college should do their part by an encouraging attendance...