Word: success
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...German marking-machine proved a grand success in Pol. Econ. 2, and entitles the inventor to be ranked among the greatest philanthropists...
...miles," some more definite idea of the distance be given. Would it not be well to name the place furthest off (for instance, Waverley) that the course would touch, so that a man could have some idea of what is before him? However, the two meets have been very successful, and we congratulate the Athletic Association on the success of their revival of Hare and Hounds...
...reasons as well. We know of several men interested in the subject who went to the first lecture on "Taxation," and to the first only. The explanation is simple. Professor Newcomb is not, and does not pretend to be, a lecturer. If the University Lectures are to be a success, the College should engage men who not only have a sufficient knowledge of their subject, as all the lecturers thus far have had, but are able, 1st, to put what they know in an intelligible form; 2d, to deliver it so that they can be heard, and, if possible...
...inferior to Yale in the support of such interests, and our college pride needs some stronger stimulus than statements about what Yale has accomplished. We sincerely hope that the Echo will receive the patronage that it deserves, and we extend to its enterprising editors our best wishes for their success...
...doubt what that motive is? Do not the numerous guide-books of Harvard, Cambridge, Boston, and Cincinnati speak for themselves? Their object was professedly, and properly enough, a financial speculation, and they met with as much success as they deserved. So long as their editor confined himself to such means, no Harvard student had any right to complain of his object. But when he sets himself up as a representative of the University, can we not question his right to do so? Heretofore young men have come to Harvard to study and to fit themselves for future usefulness...