Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Will a man play harder if he knows that after a losing game there are friends eager to crowd around and wipe away his tears, or if he knows that, defeated, he will be given the cold shoulder? I know this sounds hard, but success is worth the price. We want, not the spirit that accepts defeat with resignation, but the spirit that will not tolerate...
Year after year Harvard has gone to Springfield confident of success. The papers have sounded a note of triumph and the freshmen have put up all their money; and year by year-with one glorious exception-we have come back beaten. But we have not been utterly cast down. Oh no,- "If A. hadn't fumbled the ball on the five yard line, or if B. hadn't slipped just as he had a clear field, or if C. had only got by that Eli fullback, we'd have had 'em on the run. As it is they deserve lots...
...system of subsidies is impracticable.- (1) Subsidies large and general enough to be efficient would be too great a tax: N. A. R. 142: 478 (May, '86).- (2) Subsidies are disastrous to general ship-owning by ruining the unsubsidized: Ibid. 481-(3) Subsidies have never been a success, here or elsewhere: N. A. R. 160: 85 et seq.- (x) Italy lost much of her shipping through a system of subsidies: Ibid. 93.- (y) France tried subsidies, and her tonnage actually decreased: Ibid. 93.- (z) England never used subsidies to encourage ship-building, but only to secure regular sailings...
...Free ships would give our own people a large share in our carrying trade which was 200,000,000 in 1892: N. A. R. 154:357 (March '92).- (1) Our officers and sailors can man ships as well and as cheaply as any others: Ibid.- (x) Our maritime success in the fifties was obtained when the difference in wages of crew and cost of stores was as much in England's favor as now: Overland...
...evening was a great success in every way. Graduate membes of the club were present from all parts of the country...