Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...West is the elective system. Although this system was thought of by many long before it was introduced at Harvard, yet as it has received its most liberal development in this college, it can justly be called a Harvard institution. Western universities have been struck by Harvard's success and progress under the elective system and have been eager to adopt it as far as their resources would allow. The election of studies in the University of Minnesota is even more liberal than at Yale...
...several days past regular elevens have been playing against each other. Next Friday a match game will be played and that will close the season. The men are light in weight and for the most part inexperienced, but Captain Trafford thinks that the squad has been a decided success, and that valuable material has been secured for the game next fall...
...unjust steward was cited as a proof of how far worldliness may be carried when resolved to attain its end, and the history of the years of laborious and painstaking work of the Eastern dancing girls was given as an example of how hard people do strive for success in the lower grades of life. Then another sect, that which ran after pleasure and amusement, was treated of. It was shown what zeal this class expended and what fatigues they underwent for mere pleasure...
...dearly earned was lost, but through no fault of his. Too pround to accept a loan offered by a classmate, he left college and took a position as assistant engineer on the C. B. and Q. R. R. Here he had many intricate problems to solve, and his success won for him the highest praise. When the engineer corps was discharged, Seeley went with the others...
...first made this rule, it was the immediate object of increasing the membership of the H. A. A. and ultimately of advancing the whole system of athletics at Harvard. That the Association has succeeded in its object to a high degree is shown by Harvard's signal success in track and field athletics...