Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...watched the efforts of the freshmen. There is something radically wrong which must be remedied soon, or the result will be disastrous. We believe that the captain is doing his best to put a good crew on the water and that there is no reason why he should not succeed. Whatever the trouble is, the interests of the class demand that it shall be remedied. If the fault lies with the coaching, as our correspondent hints, let that be changed...
...that he contemns them and contemns their calling. Now and then a professor of unusual force or shrewdness or attainment, keeps his place in the memory of his old pupils as a guide, philosopher, and friend; but as a general rule, our American graduates, and especially those who succeed in life afterwards, are apt to remember their college days mainly as days of fun with their classmates, and very rarely as days of instruction from men of stronger minds and longer experience...
...base-ball men are hard at work, the candidates being numerous and faithful in practice; but the one great question is, who will succeed Stagg in the pitcher...
...passage in the first chapter of John in which John is questioned about himself by the Jewish priests. He answers, "There standeth one among you whom ye know not." In our minds "education" means the training of our intellects or hearts to some high and noble ideal. We often succeed, in a partial degree, in gaining this high standard. We obtain the wealth for which we are striving, the power, and perhaps the honor, but seldom it is that we devote thest attainments to other than selfish purposes. We are neglectful of the welfare of the world although "there standeth...
...seconds in the 120-yards hurdle race, was made over hurdles six inches or more below the regulation height of the hurdles in the intercollegiate races. Dohm, of Princeton, while abroad, won every 440-yard race in which he ran, but he did not, as was stated, succeed in breaking any of the European records, and his records at home have been surpassed both by Wells of Harvard, and Banks of Columbia...