Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...again with Yale alone, against whom she has made so many charges of foul play and ungentlemanly conduct"; and this argument under other circumstances would really have some weight, but at present it is useless. It is expected that Princeton's captain, who wishes to withdraw, will succeed in persuading his college to join Harvard, and it is possible that there may be one other college, Columbia; and, in the second place, no one can deny that a different spirit is coming over Yale in respect of her relations with Harvard. It is absurd to think that the experience...
...checkmate the sedate Senior, and the majestic Sophomore discourse learnedly on the origin of metalliferous deposits to an admiring group of members of the various departments of the University. A few years ago one of the papers had a capital article on Whist; and, however this attempt may succeed, perhaps it will awaken more interest in this queen game of cards...
...dinner is modified by the necessity of recitation and study immediately preceding and following dinner. This may be so; the great tension of the mind attendant on severe mental labor should be relaxed before eating; but that there is sufficient tension during recitation to produce injury, if dinner immediately succeed, we cannot believe. To recite a lesson already learned requires little exertion, may even tend, by gradual relaxation after a morning's work, to put the mind in a desirable condition; and though study directly after eating must be injurious, yet the necessity for studying at that hour...
...true relations to what has gone before and is to come. Whatever may be our philosophy or religious belief, the fact of the dissolution of the body at the end of a space of time which is as nothing to the eternity which has preceded and will succeed it is one of supreme import, which, as rational creatures, we must take into account in forming any belief...
...will the happiness described in this article go towards making a man, in any sense, happy? Suppose a man to succeed in limiting his desires to but one thing, - wealth, let us say, or knowledge; have we not enough examples to teach us that this one thing would never be reached, and that, even supposing it reached, the poor wretch would still have enough soul to render him miserable, "a little grain of conscience" to "make him sour"? And if we seek for happiness, for success, from culture, about which we are so fond of talking, shall we be more...