Word: successful
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Reporter. Shocking blunder! But, sir, how do you propose to carry on your elective, and what system of marks shall you adopt? I have here a marking-machine that has been employed with great success. It is warranted to turn out minus quantities, and to never give above seventy...
...Private College for Women begins its career with bright prospects for future success. As many as twenty candidates have presented themselves for admission, and among them students from Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, in spite of the fact that those colleges claim to offer to their students all the advantages of Harvard. We take the occasion to report to our Western exchanges, who have already begun to talk about women at "cultivated" Harvard, that the Private College for Women is entirely separate from the College. It is controlled by persons who have no connection with the University, and is merely...
UPON the Crew in particular we would urge the necessity of immediate and energetic action. Our success in the past three races must not be taken as a criterion of success in the future. We have probably lost all but one of our last year's crew, and men who have been long associated with our boating interests are now no longer connected with the University. We have plenty of good raw material; but Yale's experience has testified that the moulding of raw material into an efficient crew is no easy task. Such a task is ours this year...
WHAT has been said of our athletic interests in general, applies most immediately to our foot-ball team. We unfortunately had an instance last year of a case where, with plenty of very good material on hand, no proportionately good result was obtained. We also learned that the success of eleven or fifteen men depends upon their unanimity in playing, and this, in turn, depends on the constant practice of all the members of the team. To have four or five good individual players who belong to other departments of the University, and who cannot do the same amount...
...about every class, as a whole, and the tone of '79 has been a manly one. The College has been better, on the whole, for the four years which the men who graduate to-day have spent at Cambridge, and we extend to them our best wishes for their success in the world...