Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...like a repetition of "Fair Harvard," or, at least, more like that work than like "Tom Brown." Whenever an excellent story of the life of undergraduates here is written, it will be received with enthusiasm, and the reputation of its author will be made. The book that is to succeed must be written with some reference to what is said and done here, and it must at any rate carry with it the tone of the place. A few incidents founded on fact is not what we want. The forthcoming book is said to deal with actual occurrences to some...
...your company as they will be apt to want, and will, very probably, give you rather too much of theirs. Evenings ought to be devoted to pleasure. That is what they were made for; and if you ever try to devote them to anything else, you will probably succeed in ruining your eyes by the vile gaslight which Cambridge people endure...
...Saturday, June 24, Trinity will make a final effort to appear. If they succeed, the game will be played on Jarvis...
...there came to me a rumor of an intention to abolish prayers. Day after day passed, and it grew into certainty. One of our college rulers, a man of great learning and influence, was earnestly advocating it; and by the strength of his will seemed likely to succeed in putting an end to them. I was in despair; to lose at once four ringings of the bell a day, - I could not bear the thought, for those were the pleasantest times of all. My grief became anger; my anger grew into hatred of the man who was so cruelly depriving...
...struggled for, and the successful man is justly admired. That such a prize has been awarded yearly, for many generations, accounts, in some degree certainly, for the rank which the poets of England have taken in the world. Here we look in vain now for those who are to succeed to the places which are occupied by Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, and Holmes. America either has no young poets coming forward at the present time, or else they are keeping themselves in the dark, to burst upon us like the harlequin in the play, and startle us when we least expect...