Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evening of Saturday, February 27. The other colleges which will compete are the same as last year: Columbia, Dartmouth, and Pennsylvania. The concert last year was a novel event in American musical circles, arousing a great deal of interest both among critics and among the general public. Equal success is looked for in the future. The concert is a competitive affair, each club singing three pieces different in nature, and a prize being awarded at the end of the evening to that organization which shows the most finished musical accomplishment...
...annual meet is organized and run by the Intercollegiate Musical Council, the membership of which is composed of the four competing clubs. The council is now well on its feet, and has made provision for perpetuating itself. With reasonable success this year, the meet will undoubtedly become a permanent event, and it is not unlikely that it will some time be attempted in Boston or Philadelphia. The officers of the council for 1914-15 are as follows: president, A. F. Pickernell '14, former leader of the Glee Club; secretary, W. Z. Fuller, of Dartmouth; treasurer, L. H. Davis, of Pennsylvania...
During the past Christmas vacation the Workshop gave several performances of "The Chimes" outside of Cambridge in such places as the Roxbury Neighborhood House and the Charlestown High School, which met with much success...
With the competition limited strictly to undergraduates and to three-year graduates in their fourth year in some department of the University, and with the trials so arranged that all men will have several chances to prove their worth, debating should be a greater success than ever this year, both in the number of candidates and in the work of the teams against Yale and Princeton...
...report brings out well the success to date of the Freshman dormitories, although, as President Lowell says, no certain verdict can be arrived at until 1918 is graduated, and the effects on more than one Freshman class studied. The dormitories, without being "mollycoddle factories" as some sub-Freshmen liked to lable them before they saw them in operation, constitute a better environment for younger boys, than the old live-where-you-please system offered. Parents, who have hesitated to send boys to live "around," although such hesitancy was due largely to a distorted idea of the pitfalls of college life...