Word: successful
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...Hapgood is one of the younger Harvard men who have achieved success in journalistic work. While an undergraduate he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Monthly. After graduating from the College and Law School, he became dramatic and literary critic for the "New York Commercial Advertiser" and for the "Bookman," and has been actively engaged in newspaper and magazine work since then. In 1903, he assumed the editorship of "Collier's Weekly," and under his guidance that paper has become one of the most widely read and most influential of the popular periodicals...
...first public performance of Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" was given last night at Brattle Hall by the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. The success of the play does not hang on the plot, which is slender, but on its unusual scenes, its swift action, its stinging satire and the spirited delineation of character. The performance last night was remarkably smooth, the cast of thirty-four persons being of more than average ability. C. B. Wetherell '08 played Overdo, the pompous justice of the peace, with signal success. H. R. Shipherd '08 was successful throughout in his rendering...
...sort of bank for politicians and their constituents during the last few years. This year, however, it has been placed on a firm basis, with a practical man at its head, and it will be given two years' fair trial to show whether or not municipal ownership is a success...
...vote will be taken at Memorial Hall this evening during the dinner hour to determine whether the Harvard Dining Association shall retain the new system or revert to the old. The last report of the Dining Association seems to prove conclusively the success of the present plan, since the average board is about 40 cents lower than at a corresponding period of last year, and the enrolled membership 251 greater than at the first of March, when the new scheme was adopted...
...reason of the pop-night's unqualified success was probably due to the informality and sociability of the affair, as well as to the reasonableness of the admission price. Many men preferred to attend an informal class entertainment in Cambridge at a low price rather than to pay twice as much and attend a more or less formal dinner in Boston...