Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will be selected in competition from all departments of the University, and as the success of the undertaking depends upon the excellence of the chorus selected, all men in the University with good natural voices or of musical ability and training should come out. The men who are chosen will receive careful training under an experienced musical director...
...three forces which control the state--the church, the school and the stage.' He is, moreover, opposed to the star system and insists on the equal merit of all the actors, giving subordinate parts to excellent actors and thus producing a thoroughly artistic whole. As a proof of his success, Norman Hapgood '90, one of the most prominent dramatic critics of New York, says, that the best thing without exception which he had seen during last winter was a performance of "Wilhelm Tell" at the Irving Place Theatre...
...late in life that his well-merited success came to him. He published the new "Contes Cruels" and "Histories Insolites," but he died before he could reap the fruit of his labors leaving behind him a drama, "Azel," complete except for the finishing touches...
Plenty, power, wealth and ease, our present way of living, all are little calculated to develop true courage. Formerly it was simple living and hard work that won position for a man. Now the success of a man's business seems to depend on his cunning, and craft in combination and self advertisement. It is impossible to be truly brave without coming in contact with God, not in the mere abstract, but in whatever is good and beautiful...
...Regnier was born Dec. 8, 1864, at Honfleur, near Havre. His first poems, published in 1885 and 1886 were in two volumes, "Les Lendemains" and "Apaisement." These attracted little attention, but a collection of sonnets entitled "Sites," published in 1887, brought him great success. In addition to many short poems, which have been collected in three volumes, and published as "Premiers Poemes," "Poemes," and "Les Jeux Rustiques et Divius," he has written some prose in the form of short stories, and contributes regularly to the "Revue des Deux Mondes" and other periodicals...