Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principal topic of interest in the university at present is the baseball outlook. Yale's victory over Princeton last Saturday was due so largely to chance that success for the rest of the series does not seem to be assured. Moreover, Murphy will not play with the team for the remainder of the season, and Greenway will be unable to pitch in the coming game at Princeton. It seems highly probable therefore that the Princeton series will be decided by a game in New York...
...final report of the student investigation committee, published this morning, puts an end to an episode which has been intensely disagreeable, to say the least. To the members of the committee the thanks of the whole University are due for their satisfactory performance of a most distasteful duty. Their success has been a service to Harvard which can hardly be over-estimated. It has accomplished two things. It has shown to the outside world that college sentiment is done, once for all, with mere dissatisfied toleration of such stupid behaviour, even on the part of the most unsophisticated members...
...committee appointed for the investigation of the painting of the John Harvard statue deserve the sincerest congratulations for the success of their proceedings thus far, for although there have been some who were opposed to the appointment of the committee, as is always the case with new institutions of this kind, its members have unselfishly undertaken an unpleasant task, and have worked hard to accomplish it all because it was thought to be for the good of the University...
...strength of the old maxim that "Keeping everlastingly at it brings success," I venture to bring up the Philosophy I question once more. It is evident that a considerable number of men in the class of '98 are much disappointed at not being allowed to count either Philosophy 1a or 1b as a whole course next year. Would it not, them, be a good plan for the CRIMSON to put out a blue-book containing a petition that, in consideration of the fact that the proposed change in the course was not announced till late this spring, members...
...great body of the undergraduates was concerned, the celebration of the evening was apparently to be an unqualified success; but now the "muckerism"- vandalism is too classic a term-of a few men in painting the John Harvard statue has probably already effaced in the public mind any recollection of the more rational joy of the many...