Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Fresh" have again promised to play us a game of base-ball. It will be played Monday if they do not fail to keep their appointment. - Willistonian...
...occupy the mind of every student. The present state of affairs cannot continue. The building of surreptitious bon-fires at hours when none but the perpetrators can enjoy the noble sport, is conduct which is certainly worthy of the highest commendation and admiration, but it must necessarily fail to meet the craving of the college at large for an opportunity to relieve the excited emotions. Therefore, as a method of celebration, it may be safely considered henceforth as somewhat unsatisfactory. By all that marks a Harvard student as a gentleman, we call on the would be incendiaries to desist from...
...feel competent to discriminate in matters of religion are unable to act in a responsible matter in a mere case of gentlemanly conduct. It is a disgrace that Harvard students, when called upon to vote as a body upon a matter of moment to the whole university, not only fail to respond to the call, but even allow themselves to be betrayed into an action characterized only by boyish irresponsibility. It is a disgrace, that when the faculty have asked the students of the university to take sober action in a matter which concerned them as men, many...
...notice of the boat club with regard to the single scull challenge cups, which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON, should receive the careful attention of boating men in college. A single scull race with as large a number of entries as might be secured at Harvard, could not fail to be of interest to the students at large, and as an almost new form of athletic sports for Harvard, it should certainly be encouraged. We urge boating men, particularly those who have never rowed in class crews, to enter in this single scull race. The fact that another...
...same principle is at work in both cases. We find ourselves placed before a distracting labyrinth of knowledge, and the command given us, "Choose!" Some of us want to take so many different courses that we cannot easily condense our desires. Others, without any particular wish for any knowledge, fail to see which courses out of the multitude they ought to select. What is there to guide us? Who shall say what departments of knowledge are more important than what others? The only important thing is that we pursue well those branches of it which we do choose. But under...