Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...played on professional teams, will assist Captain Robertson in developing the team. Besides, Johnson, Keator, Carter, Beall, Redington, Quinby and Camp--all graduates--will coach the team during the coming season. Yale intends to give especial attention to batting, realizing that this department must be strengthened to insure success...
Constant rehearsing of the Freshman Glee, Mandolin and Banjo Clubs has begun. As a whole the material is of good quality and the slight delay in organizing will not interfere with the success of the three concerts which will be given late in the spring. Of the clubs, the Glee Club is probably making the best progress, owing to the fact that six of the members of the club are singing with the University club. There are plenty of good men for the three upper parts, but there is a great lack of second basses, and more...
...James B. Ludlow '81, on a visit to Oxford, was entertained at the Oxford Union. The success of this club seemed to him to point to the remedy for existing conditions at Harvard, and on his return to Cambridge he instigated, through the existing college periodicals, a movement for a Harvard University Club. The idea met with general favor, and on March 26, 1880, the Harvard Union was formed. The first officers were: President, W. R. Thayer '81; vice-president, J. G. Thorp '79; secretary, I. N. Panin '82; treasurer, C. G. Washburn '80; committee, F. Warren...
...published many little works full of irony, such as "Qui Perd Gagne," "Faux Depart," and "Annees d'Aventure." His "Brignol et sa Fille," a study of the French business man, has been acted on the vaudeville stage. "La Bouse et La Vie," which is now having a great success at the "Gymnase," is a clever satire on the new and luxurious French prisons...
Victorien Sardou (1831) is the most clever dramatic writer that we can imagine. He attained success in all branches of literature. His "Odette" (1881) and "Georgette" (1885) are essays of comedies with a thesis. M. Sardou has written even "operettes," "bouffes," and in "Le Roi Carotte," he tried poetry. He also treated of social studies. Quite recently he took the opportunity offered by the literary napoleonism of new fashion in France, to give us his curious innovation of "Madame Sans Gene...