Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first Freshman debating club at Harvard was formed two years ago when the present Junior class were Freshmen. A club was also organized for last year's Freshmen, and these first two Freshman clubs were quite successful both in interesting many men in debating at the beginning of their college course and in giving them good preliminary training before they came to join the Forum or the Union. This success has been due largely to the fact that up to this year there has been a debate with the Yale freshmen at the end of the season, arousing interest...
Albert E. Hancock makes an ambitious effort at sustained poetry in "Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna." At times he is good,- so good in fact that it seems a pity that the whole is not better. As a whole the poem can hardly be called a success...
...been raised to this plan are: (1) the old space is too small both for satisfying the demand for tickets and for accommodating the contestants; (2) if the large majority of the class participate there will be too much of a crush; (3) on account of this crush the success of the scheme depends absolutely on the conduct of the fellows; (4) it will be difficult to prevent maneuvering for a favorable place while the cheering is going...
...large space would be of great advantage in executing the exercises, and in allowing unlimited seats at lower price. The four trees would make the scheme self-working. It would do away with combinations and the success of the rush would not depend upon the honor of four hundred students as the modified rush about the old tree does...
...success of the Fishermen's Reading Room, conducted by the Sailor Mission branch of the Christian Association, marks another step in the progress of Harvard's practical philanthropy. That the undertaking has been a thorough success the large daily attendance of seafaring men shows. But that it might be made more attractive to sailors and so be made still more successful, the experience of its promoters shows; and they have decided to put on file in the room a number of periodicals. To the payment of the subscription prices for these periodicals students are asked to contribute. We hope...