Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...decay of class spirit here. If it is not true then it would be an excellent thing to substitute a regular annual dinner for the three upper classes, for it would unite the classes as nothing else could. Last year the senior dinner was well attended and a great success, and the interest taken in it was not in any way lessened by the dinner of the year before. This would seem to show that there is class spirit enough here to hold a dinner each year for every class without diminishing the enthusiasm at any one of them...
...style of play which will be used is the new team-of-six plan, which was used with success in last year's match. Every Harvard couple plays eight fresh deals (making twenty-four in all) with every Yale couple. The deals are then played over, the Yale men using the hands which the Harvard men used in the original play, and vice versa, but the pairs are so arranged that no deal is played a second time by a couple at whose table the deal was used in the original play. Hence there is no chance for remembering hands...
...feel the greatest respect for those who have done their duty, who have gamely fought an up-hill fight, and though defeated, left no stone unturned by which they could ensure success. Then if we are defeated, don't explain, don't excuse it, but bear it like men, grimly and silently, and go into the struggle next time with more unflagging perseverance and a deeper determination. Yet victory is better than the most honorable defeat. Do not adopt the theory that it really doesn't matter whether we win or lose, for it does matter and it rests with...
...visits and one short visit to Edinburgh, spent in the country by far the greater part of his short life of thirty-seven years. He was induced to publish his poems in Kilmarnock in 1786 with the hope of raising money to pay his passage to Jamaica, and the success of an enlarged edition of this volume was such that he was not only the lion of the winter in Edinburgh but found the proceeds of his work amply enough to buy a farm at Ellisland near Dumfries. The farm, however, did not pay and, taking a place...
...admire and respect the institution whose representatives have never been defeated in this distinctly academic form of intercollegiate contests. No more gratifying prominence could be desired by any institution. Our wish is that Princeton may learn from Harvard's example and from her own defeat the secret of success in literary lines...