Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...totally disgusted at the phase which athletics have assumed here during the past few years. The successive defeats of Harvard teams are attributed to the intermeddling of the faculty in athletics-an institution which the faculty, in its ill-judged endeavor to remodel and reorganize, has only succeed in working incalculable harm...
...Sturgis, '90, has resigned the position as Secretary of the Intercollegiate Chess Association. Bliss, '88, was elected to this position last spring, but as he was unable to serve, appointed Sturgis to succeed him. Harvard will not have any representative on the executive committee of the Association at present...
...Page, '90, has been elected secretary of the St. Paul's Society, vice G. Rublee, '90, resigned; and T. W. Balch, '90, has been elected treasurer to succeed Mr. Page...
...that year. They have made arrangements for the most systematic management and coaching. They have a graduate committee and an executive committee, both bringing all their powers to bear in giving the team every assistance and encouragement. Indeed it has been commonly stated that if they do not succeed in recovering the lost ground this year. Princeton will drop out of athletics. With such a spirit, and with the resources at their command the Princeton football team for 1888 will not be the weak and discouraged set of men who faced Yale last year. They will have all they want...
...greatest peril but if we approach the subject more carefully we shall see that a man may take a glass of liquor without absolute ruin; but, on the other hand, we shall see that there is a growing consensus of opinion pointing to absolute temperance, and that to succeed in life a man must follow in this opinion. In the speaker's college days men considered it necessary to take stimulants in order to become strong; but the athletes of to-day understand that in order to make the most of themselves they must practice total abstinence. In fact...