Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Gaskill, '78, is trying to find money enough to get married on. Guess he won't succeed unless he employs more skill than usual, and refrains from gasing about it all the time. If we did not know him, we would lend him enough to tie the knot. We think we could borrow that much! Let your courage, wax - we were almost tempted to say something about waxing your mustache, but we remember...
...change is needed in the time and place for the delivery of the ivy oration. I think it should immediately precede or succeed the exercises about the tree. If raised seats surround the tree, the orator, standing on a platform in the centre, will be able both to see his audience and to make them hear him. Inasmuch as the ivy will probably never take root, it might as well be planted under the tree as behind Gore Hall...
...been proposed of late to start an Historical Society at Harvard. The movement has already begun, and it is greatly to be desired that it succeed. The object of such a society is evident, namely, to collect several copies of the various text-books used in all the History electives, and place them at the disposal of the men who are studying History. The plan brought forward is this : It is thought that the College will provide a suitable and convenient room, where the books will be handy for every one. Out of the two hundred men in college...
...disturbance in the Yard Tuesday night was caused by a band of musicians accompanied by a numerous retinue of muckers attempting out of mere bravado to make a circuit of the College buildings. They did not succeed...
...expressed the sentiment of the College. The game with fifteen has various advantages that cannot be mentioned here; it is the game the principal colleges wish to play, and Yale admits that she must, and is willing to, come to it next year. We hope she may succeed, between now and then, in collecting together from the entire University fifteen men who know the rules...