Word: success
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...said about the department of Oratory and Rhetoric in our own College, and an effort is being made to improve the condition of our literary societies, it is neither uninteresting nor profitless to ascertain how much importance is attached to these arts in foreign universities, and to examine the success of undergraduate clubs formed for the purpose of fostering them. The Oxford Union Society is an organization of this character, and the report of the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in the London Times, of October 23, affords good evidence of its success, and shows how prized among Englishmen...
Still we should keep in mind our true position, lest by being free from care while in college we should forget that success in after-life depends upon self-reliance, and that whatever is accomplished will be accomplished independently of others...
...larger, and, we must say, the more vigorous. From the Salutatory we learn that it is conducted by the literary societies of the University. The articles are all well written, interesting, deep, and spirited. Though we shall always welcome its appearance, and wish it all success, we very much doubt whether that success, as the Review claims, "will have accomplished a reform which is needed at other institutions of learning as well as our own." Experience has shown that long articles, however well written, are seldom read by the majority of students, and a college paper, to live, must...
With a course like that at Springfield boating will be greatly discouraged, and it is of the utmost importance to the success of rowing in America that a good course be selected this coming year, and one which will not have to be changed again; for every change causes many inconveniences and drawbacks. This question of choice should be carefully considered, and if what is here said can provoke any interest on the subject, it will have answered its purpose...
...disadvantage; but the meeting of the Committee was at Springfield, and the members were invited to dine at the Ingleside House, and so the Ingleside course was selected, and for the next two years we kept going nearer the ocean in hopes of finding better water, but with limited success...