Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There has been no attempt at a concealment of Harvard's real faults and no desire to avoid the evidence of any seemingly disagreeable facts which may have been brought to light during the recent controversy. The football question has been met fairly and squarely, and the result cannot fail to be gratifying to all whose sympathies are with Harvard. The thanks of the university are due the Athletic committee for their energy and faithfulness in the work they undertook. But for them and their efforts, Harvard would very likely have never been, in the eyes of the public...
...very glad to announce the extra Christmas service which will be given in the chapel for those who are to remain in Cambridge during the recess. From its promised character the service cannot fail to be a pleasant occasion for those who spend their Christmas away from home...
...proposed is contrary to the whole policy of Harvard-that it is not her desire to advertise herself through any one of her organizations. The excuse given is hardly sound, for if the argument were consistently carried out intercollegiate athletics would be entirely abolished. In the first place we fail to see the unwisdom in allowing such an advertisement as Glee club trip. However much some may believe the contrary, a club such as that which went west last Christmas is no discreditable representative of Harvard dignity and excellence, and there is as yet no reason to believe that this...
...idea that assessments are levied on the candidates to pay expenses. Will you tell these men that it will cost them nothing but an hour's labor each day; that in order to find out who are the best men we must try them all? Even if some men fail to get a seat in the boat they will have made the successful candidates work hard for their places...
...express their opinion of our athletics. It can be done, however, and that in a spirit of not even seeming interference. Something must certainly be done. A Harvard spirit stronger then ever before is now rife among graduates and undergraduates, and it can hardly be that this has failed to reach the faculty. If it has reached them it is their duty to speak. They will be gladly heard; and, at the same time that they help to heal the breach between themselves and students which is more nominal than real, they cannot fail to benefit our athletics, at least...