Word: succession
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same programme was repeated on the 31st at Jamaica Plains, but with very poor financial success...
...accepted by the Faculty as a sufficient excuse for an absence from a college exercise. J. W. HARRIS, Sec. H. C." We think that an agent who would offer, about this time, "The Manual of Filling and Pulling," or "Every Man his own Dentist," would meet with as much success among students as the peripatetic vender of "The Science of the New Life...
...warmth of appreciation which greeted them was more than deserved. The Vice-President, Mr. A. S. Thayer, then introduced the Poet, Mr. L. W. Clark, whose poem, conceived and executed in the pleasantest manner possible, put the assembly into such good-humor that they attempted with great success the singing of one of the odes to the tune of "Fair Harvard." Toasts were then proposed and drunk with all the honors, to the various college and class interests, to which the responses were, without exception, in the happiest strain. In fact, it was observed that the remarks of the speakers...
...Spectator (Union College) closes Vol. I. in its last issue. We compliment it on its fine appearance and the peace that has existed in time past between The Spectator and The College Journal. The number now before us is full of interest to students and outside contributors. Their success is insured if the new editors make Vol. II. as good as the last number...
...meet these politic individuals in almost every walk of life, and are often astonished at their success; we see them amongst the mercantile classes, find them in congressional assemblies, note them amongst the aspirants after the chief places in societies and associations, Christian, scientific, or literary, and discover them, without the use of glasses, in our college halls. That which most astonishes us is the fact that those who thus court and attain popularity are not always the best or the most deserving of their fellows, and are apt to meet their own level when Time holds the microscope...