Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tend to lessen this feeling materially, though considering their inexperience, the Harvard speakers did themselves credit. It seemed to us then as it seems to us now that intercollegiate debate demands too great maturity and experience on the part of the participants to be undertaken by freshmen with thorough success. The Freshman Debating Club has a distinct sphere within the University in training men for the great debates with Yale and Princeton, and it should confine itself to this task, which would certainly give it enough to occupy all its time...
...last week. There was an unusual attendance of the students and great enthusiasm was shown. The following men were chosen to represent Princeton: Frederick W. Loetscher '96, Iowa; Robert M. McElroy '96, Mo.; Herbert Ure '96, N. J. Edward W. Hamilton '96 was selected to serve as alternate. The success of the contest and the enthusiasm manifested makes it more and more evident that there is a growing interest in debate among the student body in general and it only remains to allow those who struggle for the honor or representing Princeton in this field their proper position...
...committee has been troubled by an unnecessary delay on the part of certain members of the class. It is hardly fair to elect men to responsible positions, and then fail to give them the hearty cooperation which is necessary if they are to carry out their plans with success...
...with early success in the practice of law and began his political career in 1868 as a member of the Common Council of Lowell. He occupied several minor offices in Lowell and was elected Mayor of Lowell in 1880-81. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, in 1885 was a member of the legislature and in the same year was elected to Congress from the eighth district. He was denominated in 1892 but was defeated...
...writers, this mixture of style was more than a mistake, it was a crime. But here, no less than in his regard for the three unities, so dear to the hearts of French writers, Moliere's genius broke loose from all artificial restraint. Corneille is another example of the success of which high ability is capable, even when it disdains technical rules...