Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...efforts of the Cycling Association to hold an intercollegiate bicycle meet next spring are well directed and deserve to meet with success. We feel that every attempt to remove this form of sport from the list of regular track events is a step in the right direction. The bicycle races in the annual intercollegiate games have rarely been thoroughly satisfactory. In the first place the track itself, though well adapted for the other races, is almost always unsuited for bicycles and the result is that accidents to wheelmen are frequent. A tract that is intended for bicycle racing should...
...team work was excellent. Under the most favorable conditions it is far from easy to gain the interest of the students in a new team. Yesterday's victory, however, has put the ice polo team on a good footing in the University and has insured the future success of the sport at Harvard...
...little "Lark," a recent innovation into the ranks of the decadent minature magazines, is published monthly by Wm. Doxey at San Francisco. It is essentailly a humorous publication and such a delightfully humorous one as to insure its success. The little imbecilic verses which it prints with still more imbecilic pictures by Gillett Burgess are positively works of art. They are on the order of Sears' Nonsense Rhymes but are even better than those recognized classics in that they are, if possible, more inane...
...must be of somewhat limited facilities.- (2) It would not then prevent social disintegration.- (x) It would not then "furnish a meeting place for mass of students."- (y) It would not then unify Harvard spirit.- (b) No experience of other universities can form a basis of argument as to success of this.- (1) Oxford and Cambridge Unions are successes because number of students is steady.- (2) Yale University Club is fundamentally different in its organization from proposed club.- (x) Seniors and juniors only are admitted.- (y) members of club are carefully selected...
...value of the courses given by Mr. Copeland cannot well be over-estimated. An excellent reader himself, he has the faculty of knowing how to instruct others, and under his tuition very poor readers make rapid improvement. His curse in debating which was started last year has met with success and has proved a good training school for men who wish to enter one of the debating clubs. It is also of considerable value to men who are already members of these clubs, since in Mr. Copeland's course they may obtain able criticism on their work. We feel sure...