Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Chess and Whist Club is about to begin the winter with a chess tournament which ought to be a great success. The membership of the club is full and includes a number of excellent chess players. However, as there must be many men in the University not in the club who play strong chess, the tournament is thrown open to all with the hope that the championship of the college will actually be held by the Harvard man that plays the best game. A blue book will be left for two weeks at Foster's to receive entries, after...
...field and in its result was very satisfactory to all well wishers of the team. The game was played on its merits throughout, being wholly devoid of unnecessary roughness, and the high score run up against the Pennsylvania men has raised very sanguine hopes as to our success this year. Very few are willing to predict the result of the game at Springfield today, but it seems to be the general opinion that, barring accidents, Yale will win the league championship. A very large number of men are expected to attend the Harvard game...
...large and enthusiastic audience greeted Miss Huntington last evening at the Hollis Street Theatre when she appeared in "Paul Jones." Miss Buntington's success in this opera in London and New York is too well known to dwell upon. Suffice it to say that in every way she came up to the expectations of the audience. Miss Huntington has a contralto voice of wonderful sweetness and adds to this an ability to act as few opera singers can. Miss Huntington appears as Paul Jones and the rest of the parts are well taken...
...report of the financial condition of the Co-operative Society shows that the past year has been a success. The amount of money which is used during a year's business is becoming very large, and makes clear how much the department is patronized. We consider that the change in the proportion of the net profits, which will be devoted to dividends, is advisable. It is not right that a business of such large and increasing proportions, should be obliged o work on a capital unnecessarily restricted. It may make a slight deduction fro each man's dividend...
...dinner held at Young's Tuesday night in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Signet was an unqualified success. There were present about seventy members, old and new. Professor G. L. Kittredge, president of the alumni association, acted as chairman of the dinner. Speeches were made by Professors James, Wendell, Lanman and Hart, and by Messrs. W. K. Blodgett, '78, H. McK. Landon, '92, E. B. Hunt, '78, H. L. Wheeler, '81, L. Pulsifer, '90, G. R. Pulsifer, '88, J. Prentiss, '84, and others. Professors James and Wendell discussed as length the proposed reduction...