Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...French play, "Los Vivacities du Capitaine Tie," was presented with great success on Wednesday night by the under graduate French Club. When the play was first decided upon the club found that a suitable American edition could not be procured, so it published one of its own. The reception it received was very encouraging, the entire edition being sold. As last year, the proceeds from the performance will be devoted to a public lectureship fund in French literature...
...Thomas M. Osborne, president of the George Junior Republic Association, spoke last Saturday evening in the vestry of the First Parish Church, on the work of the Republic. The Republic, he said, is not a scheme of the imagination, but a practical institution, whose success has already been demonstrated. Mr. Osborne went on to describe in detail the workings of this unique settlement in Freeville, N. Y. Here about one hundred boys and girls, drawn from all classes of society, have been constituted into a juvenile republic, making their own laws, having their own courts, carrying on their own industries...
...worth while. He learned what it meant to fight out his own fight alone and to pay for his own mistakes. This, with a real comprehension of what citizenship means, is what the Republic is meant to teach all its citizens and does teach with extraordinary success...
Members of the University interested in Social Service but not familiar with the interesting work of the George Junior Republic and its success will be able to learn many new facts from Mr. Osborne. It is particularly desirable that College students interested in charities should give their attention to work of this kind which concerns the making of permanently useful citizens out of apparently unpromising characters. One of the boy citizens will probably also speak this evening...
...Republic Association, will speak on the work and needs of the Republic at the First Parish. Vestry Church street, on Saturday, November 29, at 8 o'clock. Members of the University interested in Social Service but not familiar with the interesting work of the George Junior Republic and its success will be able to learn many new facts from Mr. Osborne. It is particularly desirable that College students interested in charities should give their attention to work of this kind which concerns the making of permanently useful citizens out of apparently unpromising characters. The fact that the boys...