Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...current number of The Continent contains an article on Harvard undergraduate life which cannot fail to be of interest to all students in Cambridge. The writer of the article, Mr. Sloane Kennedy, the compiler of the lives of Longfellow and Whittier, takes a very friendly view of Harvard students. He objects to the popular idea that Harvard students are either boating men, base-ball players or "howling swells," and characterizes the representative Harvard man as "simply a quiet, studious young man, only to be distinguished from other well dressed young men by a certain air of intellectualism and that appearance...
...complete list of all games played by the university and class base-ball and foot-ball teams, the lacrosse team and the cricket club. The measurements of the crew, the percentage of the nine and the tables of the best American and English college and amateur athletic records cannot fail to be of interest...
...more interesting games, and can obtain them at greatly reduced expense. There is a strong tendency at present to curtail college expenditures for athletics, and this seems a good plan to assist it. It is no argument at all to say that the mere fact that a nine fails to win victories is a reason for excluding it from the league. Some nine must always be at the foot of the list. But with all respect for Dartmouth and Amherst, it is a patent fact to any Yale man, that games with them fail to be as interesting as those...
...honest work and desire for success has never been the fault of Harvard teams. And should our game with Yale next fall determine the championship as it did this fall we can have the satisfaction of knowing that the contest will be before thousands of friends who will not fail to appreciate a gallant struggle whatever may be the issue. With so much at stake it behooves every foot-ball man to keep in as perfect condition as possible, not only during the winter months, but in the summer vacation as well, so that he may return in the fall...
...committee of Harvard students are canvassing all the classes in order to obtain at least one hundred subscribers at $2 each for the organization of a reading room association. It certainly seems strange to us at Yale that the Harvard corporation should fail to furnish a good reading room.-[News...