Word: failed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University will not fail to appreciate the necessity for confidence and unity in the present condition of affairs. But if lack of confidence and unity is due to the secrecy of the training, it seems as though the slight advantages to be gained from the latter should be sacrificed for the greater good to be gained from a closer identification of the crew with University interests...
...instead of one umpire there should be half a dozen or more, it does not meet the case. In boxing contests blows are struck too rapidly to allow the eye to follow them. When you multiply that by 11, I fail to see how half a dozen or a dozen umpires can correct this game. The correction must come from the manly opinion of the college. The alumni and undergraduates of all colleges may well work together that this disgrace shall cease. It is un-American and uncollegiate. Let each one try to raise the standard of play...
...will of the late Judge E. R. Hoar, Harvard College receives a bequest of $10,000, the income to be applied to the education of meritorious undergraduates of the college from the town of Concord, either immediately after entering or later. If such fail to apply, then the interest is to accumulate until the principal shall reach the sum of $12,000, which shall constitute two scholarships; and whenever no Concord boy shall apply for either, the income for the year may be given by the corporation to another undergraduate...
...entrusted, after the manner of the system in vogue at Harvard, to a committee composed of members of the Faculty and of students boarding at the "Commons." This plan has met with approval and as the petition is practically unanimous, it is thought that the Faculty can hardly fail to act on the suggestions embodied...
...intention to injure each other in all their attacks was clearly evident. Therefore there can be no question of accident. Furthermore both teams appeared upon the field with a crowd of doctors, ambulances and attendants, which from the very start did not fail of producing a gruesome impression upon the spectators...