Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...restrain themselves. Now, however, the purpose of punishmen is more justly to inculcate self-control, the rule of moral force. With this object inview, of calming stubbornness, and appealing to prisoners through hope rather than fear, the Elmira reformatory system has been introduced and bids fair to become a success, so far as may be expected of any remedy for the disease of crime. At Elmira every effort is made to find the weak points of each prisoner and to strengthen him by striet discipline and training, morally, mentally and physically. His progress is carefully watched, and where the system...
...subject of Professor Baker's address this evening has a serious interest for Harvard men, one which should appeal strongly to every member of the University. The repeated successes which have been won upon the platform in our contests with other colleges, though gratifying to our pride as students of Harvard may possibly have an injurious effect on the standards of ability which we set before us. Debating as it is known today has hardly passed its infancy. Our graduates of the older generation tell us of the almost total lack, in their time, of facilities for acquiring skill...
Much depends on the way the baseball season is opened tonight. A large number of candidates is the first thing to be desired and then the hardest kind of work by every man to the end of the season. That success will follow is something which, though it can not be predicted, the size of the University and the spirit of its members should put beyond a doubt. This spirit is what some newspapers have been trying to hold up to ridicule of late, and they will look to the meeting tonight for an evidence of their view...
...results indicate a year of more than ordinary success. The students came mostly from New England, though twenty-five states were represented and ninety-five states were represented and ninety-two schools and twenty-one colleges...
...chess match, though won by a small margin, was a very satisfactory one. The contest with Columbia was intensely exciting and the winning of the individual championship by the latter college made the division of honors a very even one. We congratulate Harvard's representatives on their well-earned success...