Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting will be the same as for the university meeting, except that throwing the hammer and putting the shot will be left out. No freshman who has ever done any thing in the way of track athletics, or who has reason to think he can do any thing, should fail to enter his name for some event in this meeting. Fuller information of the events to be contested, prizes, etc., can be found from the posters, which will be put up today Respectfully yours...
...ascents, taking no rest and neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other respect, he knew his own language as well as ever, and recalled perfectly all the incidents of the day. As soon as he had thoroughly rested and had eaten the food which he procured by signs, his German returned to him completely...
...this article, he will perhaps be tempted to leave it at once without reading. The subject has certainly been often treated of, but of late such new annoyances have arisen that the attention of the authorities is demanded to institute at least partial reforms before another year. We fail entirely to see what services the average janitor performs that he should be entitled to the respectable remuneration that he receives. He refuses to do the simplest errands; his most important duty - the supervision of the goodies - he does in the most slipshod manner possible; the only thing be does...
...little excuse for the nine going to pieces as it did further on in the game. However, let us hope that the result of this game was only another example of the uncertainties of base-ball. All hope of the championship is not yet lost, and even if we fail in this there is still the chance of our defeating Yale on June...
...such conduct on the part of an institution that desires to be classed among the first schools of America, that boasts of its willingness to aid its pupils in the free and fearless discussion of all the problems that now occupy the attention of the learned world, cannot fail to bring home well-deserved derision and contempt to the fossil representatives of a past age and society...