Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...petition which they handed in would lead one to believe. Communication was had with Yale and Princeton, and a set of revised rules submitted to these colleges. Satisfactory arrangements could not be made, however, before the meeting of the faculty, and accordingly another delay was asked. We still fail to see why the committee did not make this state of things clear to the faculty and, moreover, submit their proposed revision of the rules to that body. The faculty could then have had some ground to work upon and would not have been left so much in the dark...
Turning to Association Foot Ball, which cannot fail, its good qualities having been fairly tested, to become as popular with you as it has with us. The game has advanced with much greater strides than the Rugby game, and bids fair to become the favorite. The playing of it is not confined to the fall season, it is taken up with equal vigor in the spring, and in some parts of Ontario is played throughout the entire year, winter and all. The game is confined almost exclusively to Ontario. Here we have fifty or more first-class clubs, the majority...
...neglected her agricultural for her manufacturing interests. Turn to India, a country which before English rule, wove the finest cloths known to the world. She had been protected by the policy of the East India Company. Now, thanks to free trade, she has no manufactures at all. When crops fail, then comes famine. Famines only occur in countries which produce food and nothing else...
Several gentlemen, presumably freshmen, fail to observe the rules of the reading room of the library, in respect to loud conversation...
...Princetonian says: "The Professors of English at Harvard now excuse editors of the college papers from essay writing This cannot fail to have a good effect on Harvard journalism. The editors will have more time for their journalistic work, and competition for editorial boards will be stronger. This ought to be tried in Princeton." We should like to inform the Princetonian, and also a hundred or so other college papers in which this delusive item has appeared, that the Harvard editor has as hard a grind in his English work as anyone else, and is not exempt at all from...