Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...infuse new life into that, of late, dormant organization is shown by the series of games arranged for the coming few weeks. If is quite a time since any cricket campaign has been planned by the club so extensive as that at present contemplated. The course of action cannot fail to bring the club into prominence, and it ought to result in greatly raising the standard of play at Harvard. The practice which the club will gain by its games against teams like those put upon the field by the Longwood, Haverford, and University of Pennsylvania cricket clubs must necessarily...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- No student who has lived in the college yard the past few years, can fail to remember the jovial and kindly face of Mr. Fredriksen, familiarly known as "P. J." He had almost become one of the institutions of the college, so interested was he for the students, and desirous to do their work in the best possible manner. Besides working for them without sure promise of payment, very many known, by experience, how ready he was to help a man out of a tight place by lending money, and trusting to his honor, for re-payment...
...season of the year, when everybody is thirsty and the college pumps are used to their utmost capacity. Seriously, we congratulate the league on having procured such eminent speakers as will address the college to-night in Sanders. We are sure that Mrs. Livermore and Col. Higginson will not fail to draw out a large audience; and we believe that all who can, should attend, although it be only to see and "hear" these two eminent speakers of the day. Then, too, the cause which they will advocate and the arguments which they are to present will be well worth...
...strongest, is not equal to the steps by which we approach it, and the book leaves a sense of something wanting, a promised strength which is not forthcoming. It also lacks unity, and the first chapters, treating of the boyhood of Beverly, present anecdotes of him, which entirely fail to delineate his character with any vividness. One might also think that the Italian language was not a common study for a boy of ten or twelve, in the New England of fifty years...
...feel sure that the college will not fail to take advantage of the opportunity offered to attend the course of lectures now being delivered by one of our most esteemed instructors. The course of lectures on "Egypt and Her Monuments," delivered by Professor Cooke in 1883, was most enjoyable, as was shown by the crowded audiences in attendance at each lecture. The second lecture in the course will be delivered this evening...