Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...coming out on Brattle street, and turning to the left we continue our way down Brattle. But first, why all these perambulations? I answer, merely that we may pass through a very pleasant quarter of Cambridge, and at the same time, "take in" the Longfellow house, which we cannot fail to see on our left as we move down Brattle street. It is another of the famous old Cambridge houses, yellow and white like so many of the others, with a high fence and hedge in front. Opposite the house is the lot belonging to the Longfellow estate. The poet...
...that the seal of the college which, if we remember rightly, is to be found at the left hand upper corner of the card, had undergone a change. Now, at the risk of appearing somewhat hypercritical, we would remark that the false heraldry displayed upon the card cannot fail to be painful to the eye of the conscientious student. It is bad enough to be summoned, but worse when that summons is stamped with a seal which certainly approaches more meanly the emblem of Yale than that of Harvard. We all know that the seal should bear three books, argent...
...point of but little importance, and indeed, it would be, did it not involve a graver question, and one, too, that threatens to involve us in serious complications. We are in receipt of advices from eminent counsel informing us that a summons bearing the imprint of a seal which fails to meet the given description of the emblem of any corporation, is no otherwise than null and void. Already we have heard sundry freshmen announce their intention of disregarding in future all summonses which fail to meet the legal requirements. We print these few words of warning, therefore...
...appear the Freshmen who make their purchases under the supervision of an indulgent father, guardian, or uncle, and who seem to say by their conscious and almost guilty look, "Yes, we are Freshmen, but we really cannot help it." It is a curious fact, and one which cannot fail to be observed, that the faste of the Freshmen are nearly always diametrically opposed to the desires of officiating chaperon. Thus one constantly hears fought out, with an energy worthy of a higher subject, such questions as the relative merits of coffee-pots, or the varied advantages of Keiller...
...eleven to this most important feature of the game. Loosing the ball after it has been carried close up to the opposite goal line, or making a careless punt out or kick for goal are altogether too common with our men and are the reasons why we so often fail to make a decent score when playing much the better game...