Word: successfully
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...meetings of the Athletic Association which have taken place for the last three weeks in the Gymnasium will probably be discontinued for the rest of this year. It is to be hoped that their success will lead to their being established again next winter...
Taken as a whole the meeting was very successful, but as the time on Saturday morning is so limited, it is advisable that the delays which were frequent on this occasion should be avoided in future. The meetings in the Gymnasium will be very useful in affording students an opportunity to show the results of their winter training, and to encourage sparring, wrestling, and other sports which cannot take place at the spring or fall meetings. The interest which the audience took in the proceedings last Saturday show that these meetings of the association are an assured success...
...Tournament of the Athletic Association last Saturday was a success, and the one to-morrow should be as good, if not better. It should be better. Experientia docet. The experience gained last week should be used. The contests of last Saturday began at the hour announced, and there were none of those vexatious delays between them to which we are so much accustomed, yet they did not end until an hour after the time expected. The programme was too long for two hours. Much of the pleasure that would have been taken in the boxing and wrestling was lost because...
...Bowditch manipulated his opera(hat)ic accordion, and by the proficiency, together with the wonderful delicacy of touch, which Mr. Gray exhibited in playing on his novel guitar. The singing of Mr. Hooper throughout the evening was very creditable, and the gentlemen may well congratulate themselves on their success in bringing out such an agreeable entertainment...
...told that if success in this project crown the efforts of Harvard men, "a meed of praise would be awarded them greater even than they would obtain were they to bear off the honors at the next Saratoga contest." Here, then, is an opportunity for Harvard to distinguish herself! With what pride should we say to the victors at Saratoga: "You have won the race, but we have supplied mental nourishment for our Wellesley sisters...