Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to row a fair and gentlemanly race, which the diplomatic correspondence of the last two months seems to have endeavored to conceal, at once became evident when the representatives of the colleges met. The evident fairness of the settlement of the question about the method of starting cannot fail to commend it to every one. To start with the sterns of the shells even and to judge by the bows at the finish, would simply make our course about five feet shorter than Harvard's - we do not wonder that they objected. - [Record...
...advance on the price of tickets last year, when an excuse was made of heavy expenses incurred for repairing the track on Jarvis field and for fitting up the meeting-room in the gymnasium. But now that there is a handsome balance in the treasury of the association, we fail to see why the former money-making scheme should be persisted in and improved upon. This proceeding is at the best somewhat questionable, and we hope that the higher price has not been determined upon simply because the managers think they can get it. They should remember with what disfavor...
...large majority, we regret to report, that the Republican party has outlived its usefulness. Last week the presidential question was discussed, and it is reported that this meeting also was overwhelmingly Democratic in its sympathies, and the Republican party was passed over in scornful silence. This news cannot fail to cast a gloom over the entire community...
...Club, but not furnished for publication," say the News, "is that Yale regrets the peremptory tone of Harvard's last letter in intimating that Yale's reply would terminate the correspondence; that Harvard's refusal to abide by the decision of a neutral committee, should the two advisory committees fail to agree, does away with settling the matter by graduate committees; that Yale now agrees to send the president of the boat club and the captain of the crew to confer with the Harvard representatives, within two weeks, and to arrange the race, her challenge being now open for acceptance...
...that are being given in Sever Hall. The fourth one of the series to be given this evening presents an unusually fine programme, and one that calls for a large attendance. We hope that the students will not allow these concerts, which have been such an artistic success, to fail from a financial point of view...