Word: succession
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...regular graduates' night performance of the play was held in Brattle Hall Monday evening. Although a number of the characters are little more than figureheads, the excellent and very natural acting of three or four of the leading characters made the production a success. The plot centres in a typographical error in which the name "Godard" is printed "Bodard." As both men are candidates for the office of "SousPrefet," much confusion is caused, in which Cecile Boulinard and her father appear. At the eleventh hour, when Bodard's change of winning Cecile depends on his appointment, a telegram from...
...Cercle Francais presented for the first time last evening at Brattle Hall is decidedly an amusing farce. Although there are a number of characters who are little more than figureheads, the excellent and very natural acting of three or four of the leading characters made the production a success...
...hold a series of four dinners during the year. One-fourth of the class will be invited to each of these dinners by the committee in charge, the first will be held in Trophy Room of the Union on the evening of January 18. In order to insure their success, each man should try to come when he in invited. The committee will endeavor to secure some outside speaker on each occasion, and there will be informal speeches by members of the class...
...introducing President Garfield, President Lowell spoke as follows: "It has been said that every man ought to have a vocation and an avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a lawyer, a reformer in public life, an educator, and a college president; and he has done all of these with singular success, and in a way to excite the admiration of all who know him. I think he might speak with authority upon each of the four vocations I have mentioned...
...time with books, or with men who have not yet arrived at the stage of doing things. But now gentlemen, that contrast is by no means all true. Nor is it essentially true. It is true in its outward aspect, but so far as the true view of success in life is concerned, so far as your service to the world is concerned, in teaching and educating young minds so that they may realize the uttermost of all that is in them, this contrast is misleading. I am not sure but that when filled with red blood of youth...