Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...result is auspicious. The initial registration of 35 was fully up to the number anticipated by the organizers of the School, and this number is slightly increasing from day to day. Not only has the size of the school justified the hopes of those interested in its success, but the apportionment of the students among the various elective courses has demonstrated the wisdom and care with which they have been prepared. As an indication of the school's efficiency, however, registration figures will soon become of minor importance. It is the product that will henceforth be watched, and there...
...beginning. A man who trains four days a week from the very first is in far better condition for a race than the man who trains two days a week at the start, and every day the final week. Steady work and strict training are what bring success...
...fast and each seemed perfectly able to gain through the other's line. Fumbling was much in evidence, and the play ragged and disjointed at times. Several good formations were used that will develop into sure ground-gainers with sufficient practice. The forward pass was worked with perfect success once, and failed another time. The line-up follows: FIRST ELEVEN. SECOND ELEVEN. Groves, l.e. r.e., Clifford Dowey, l.f. r.t., Holt Fisher, Kelly, Douglas, l.g. r.g., Strong Knapp, c. c., C. Amory Blake, r.g. l.g., Stow Loslie, r.t. l.t., Gaddis L. D. Smith, r.e. l.e., Paine Potter, q.b. q.b., Wigglesworth Pierce...
...consideration is to be given, first to the student's manliness, truthfulness, courage, honesty, kindliness, loyalty, high purpose and devotion to duty; second, to his scholarly attainments, which must be such as to render a college course of real value to him; and third, to his fondness for and success in clean, manly, out-of-door sports, particularly those that call for unselfish endeavor for the honor of his side. Each scholarship is to be held throughout the recipient's college course...
...alone among American institutions. From entrance examinations to graduation and then on in business life extends a series of competitions, for the world at large has not yet accepted the elimination of competition. Men come here to acquire the mental power, mental alertness, the perspicacity that is essential for success...