Word: successful
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Great difficulties were encountered in obtaining the cast as it was necessary for the subject to stand in a rigid position with the muscles tense for twenty minutes at a time, and 180 trials, covering a period of several months, were made before the experiments met with success. Sandow's engagement at Keith's terminates this week and it is expected that the statue will be sent to the University immediately afterwards. It will probably be placed in the Gymnasium...
...Athletic Success and College Growth...
Various statements that have been made from time to time concerning the effect of success or failure in athletic sports on the resort to colleges have induced President Eliot to prepare tables of statistics giving the actual results, in terms of victory and defeat, of athletic contests between Harvard and Yale and between Yale and Princeton in each of the last ten years, and the registration of students in the subsequent academic years corresponding therewith. In commenting on the tables. President Eliot says: "One might suppose that the most immediate effect of victory or defeat in athletic sports would appear...
...American colleges and universities could satisfy themselves that success in athletics is not indispensable to college growth, or better still, be persuaded that too much attention to athletic sports, or a bad tone in regard to them, hinders college growth, there would probably result a great improvement in the spirit in which intercollegiate contests are conducted: they would come to be regarded as the by-play they really are, and would be carried on in a sportsmanlike way as interesting and profitable amusements...
...small grand-stand has been built as an experiment near the baseball stands. The stand is built entirely of cement, supported by a steel frame, and is of the type which it is hoped to put up on the football field, if this experiment proves a success...