Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Just how Harvard men are working in this movement has already been set forth in the CRIMSON. Their numbers have markedly increased, and already their work is beginning to show in good results. The success, then, of this movement shows plainly the spirit that is among us. It is as free from cant as anything could ever be; it is the spirit which, if heeded and encouraged, will make us strong to endure and wise to comprehend the business of life...
...competent to coach the 'varsity can be found to fill the instructorship in boating. But it must be clearly understood that such a person need not have the care of the university crew. His work, on the contrary, would begin at the Weld boat house. If he proved a success there, he might be given part of the coaching of the class crews; but not one step higher, unless he proved fully capable...
...found a notice by the foot ball captain requesting all men who wish to play in the foot ball squad this spring to meet him at the gymnasium tomorrow evening. The importance of this football squad can hardly be overestimated. It is of course unsafe to attribute our success of last year to any one force, when so many factors had their part in it. But few men who watched the foot ball practice last year will dispute that the victory at Spring-field was due at least as much to the early work of the squad...
...great success of the New York alumni dinner the other day makes noticeable once more the increasing efficiency of the Harvard clubs all over the country. Everywhere the members of the clubs have met with more than usual enthusiasm. Part of this is doubtless due to our victory at Springfield, doubly glorious after an unbroken series of defeats. But there is a greater awakening of the Harvard spirit in the land than athletic successes alone will account for. Perhaps the successful working of the elective system is dispelling the doubts which a great part of our alumni felt at first...
...dinner was a great success and was more like a gathering of undergraduates than of alumni...