Word: failed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first number of the much talked of Harvard Graduates' Magazine has appeared this fall and under circumstances especially favorable. The magazine cannot fail to be a welcome opportunity for each graduate "to give an honest and fearless expression of his individual opinion." Such a magazine as this has long been wanted and we feel that it will bring many advantages. It will serve to graduates to keep alive their interest in the college, to follow its changes and its progress and give them a chance to compare and to criticise the various changes which the college is making from year...
...second half, and the ends and tackles, too, did their share, especially Hallowell, Newell, Mason and Emmons The team as a whole followed the ball well, as was shown by the fact that not once during the game when Dartmouth dropped the ball did some Harvard player fail to drop on it. The chief faults of the team were, on the part of the forwards, a failure to break through and tackle behind the line, and the part of the backs, a failure to "dive" for the holes made for them...
...opening article in the Atlantic for June is on the "Education of the Negro," by W. T. Harris. For men who are interested in the great race-problem of our country, and especially of the South, the article cannot fail to be of great value, especially from the comments in the shape of foot-notes to the text by such high authorities as the Hon. R. L. Gibson of Louisiana, Hon. J. L. M. Curry, Philip A. Bruce, and Lewis H. Blair...
...death such a matter of personal sorrow to the members of the college, as it is his own lovable nature which made his friends so fond of him. Everyone who knew Battelle, and the number of those who have had this privilege has fortunately been large, could not fail to love his bright face and his simple ways. That cheerful disposition, cheerful even under such a trial, has won for him a lasting place in the hearts of the present generation of Harvard...
...whom he has lectured have had upon it While he has not, perhaps, offered us any especially new or original treatment of them - and indeed, as we understand it, such was not his intention at the beginning, - he has given an entertaining and popular course of lectures which cannot fail to be profitable to us. Certainly he can close them with the satisfaction that they have proved of interest, and that we are grateful to him for his undertaking...