Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effective. Of the stories, Mr. Plummer's "Full o' the Moon" catches the spirit of Irish legend, though the effort at Irish idiom is a trifle apparent; and Mr. Grant Code's "The Smile" places an old theme in an up-to-date Central American setting with considerable success. The articles on topics of the day begin with Mr. J. S. Watson's "Art and Artificiality," a not quite articulate protest against the "Safety First" temperament. Mr. McComb in his paper "Of Individuality" deals with an allied subject with greater brevity and force. Mr. Burrows replies to an editorial criticizing...
Football at the University has been under the direction of Coach Haughton for eight successive years, and the success which has been attained is to be as much attributed to him as to the members of the teams. During this eight years Yale has been defeated five times and tied twice; Princeton has been defeated four times during Haughton's regime and has beaten the University once, for football relations between the two universities were renewed only...
...group of young men have enjoyed the privilege of success, and if that success is the result of serious work, it is extremely difficult for them to make any extensive report of their activities without the use of superlatives. That the Phillips Brooks House has enjoyed a successful year is evidenced by the reports of the several societies, and it is interesting and impressive to observe the wide field of activities covered by these organizations...
More candidates are needed for the Senior and Junior class crews in order to make the inter-class race in May a success. There are fewer men out from the classes of 1916 and 1917 than ever before, and a great many more candidates can be used. All those who have had any crew experience should report at the times of the rowing of the Senior and Junior crews respectively...
...piece selected is a two-act war drama, "Servir," by Henri Lavedan. The play was first produced in Paris in 1913 at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and, with the foremost of modern French actors, M. Guitry, in the chief role, scored a great success. It was written during the trouble between France and Morocco, and shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas. Although the play was written a full year before the outbreak of the present European war, the author foresaw the trend of events, and the play ends...