Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unfortunate that Harvard cannot by her own efforts alone save intercollegiate football, for of the intensity of her reform spirit at present there is convincing assurance. The cooperation of other colleges will, however, be necessary; and first of all, of Yale. We do not fear for the outcome. Yale men know enough of true sport to know that football does not now come under that head...
They will not have the stimulus that Harvard has in the fear of losing the game altogether, but there should be need of no greater stimulus than the gentlemanly resolution to play gentlemanly football. If Harvard and Yale gentlemen cannot now conclusively demonstrate their ability to meet as such on the football field, they will justly forfeit the privilege...
...Voted, That in the opinion of the Board of Overseers intercollegiate football at the University should be abolished when it is shown that the existing serious evils and abuses of the game cannot be corrected...
...some sort the center of the social life of the University. With such Common Rooms, and the hospitable gatherings in them, he had been familiar at Oxford, and so doubtless felt their want keenly; but though he desired them keenly; but though he desired them earnestly for Harvard, he cannot have desired them half so earnestly as she does herself. Fortunately she has not to wait for them, as Mr. Hill seemed to anticipate, till the rise of "some generous and wealthy benefactor," though she still must wait for several years. The recent financial crises made it necessary to give...
...have been appointed by the senior class to attempt to express to you their sincere sympathy in your great sorrow. We feel that the loss of your son has left in our class a gap which cannot be filled. The class as a whole will miss one whom they are proud to have called a classmate, and those who knew him intimately have lost a manly, sincere and lovable friend. We as a class share in your grief, for this sorrow has touched us all, and we join as friends and classmates to assure you of our deepest sympathy...