Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dear fellow," thought I, "if you continue to be as great an ass as you are now, your pictures will probably remain undecorated, unless you should go to France, and compete for the medal of which La Marjolaine got such a number; and even then, you might not succeed. Again, why have any pictures that don't 'amount to much'? Your wall-paper, which is not intolerably ugly, is better than a bad print." This is what I thought. I only said, "Though the Art Club does not generally admit Freshmen to its hilarious meetings, your room is evidence that...
...Inning. Again Yale fails to reach first base; Ernst and Tyng have got into their old-time, clock-like precision. But Harvard does not succeed in hitting Lamb, and although Holden manages to get to first by an error, he is left there. The score is still 4 to 0 for Yale...
...they are not; that because so many men will receive the lower grades of honors, the list will have no interest to any one. But it is not easy to see how the interest felt in honors which four or five men or which ten or twelve men only succeed in winning is to be materially diminished by the fact that fifty or sixty students win an entirely different honor, one of a much lower grade. It would be fully as reasonable to say that the one man who obtains a degree summa cum laude gets less honor because thirty...
...hoped that those who enter for the boxing, fencing, and wrestling contests of the H. A. A. will succeed in "covering the distance...
...must meet the obvious objection that wealthy young men might be induced to break away from the temptations to idleness which beset them, and succeed in winning money which they do not need. Not to mention the probable supposition that in such cases the emolument would in some way be restored to the college, it is confidently replied that, any stimulus to self-control and industry which may chance to reach the inheritors of wealth it is for the interest of the community to bestow. Moreover, to those who are troubled by difficulties of this description, it may be pointed...