Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirtieth of this month will be a day long to be remembered by all men now in college, unless all the signs fail. The regiment, one might better say brigade, of torch bearers which Harvard will send out on the evening of that day promises to surpass in numbers and splendor all demonstrations hitherto made by students. The undergraduates will turn out in force, the Law School has promised a considerable battalion and invitations have been sent to all graduates living in the vicinity and to the Medical and other departments of the university to join in this parade...
...take the place of the unattainable statue or portrait ; to flatter is not always to falsify. Besides the Latin "simulacha" does not always distinguish between real and ideal, true and false images. Were all the busts and statues in Rome, Naples and Florence portraits from life? Art may sometimes fail to represent truly even those great men whose portraits and descriptions we have. Wendell Phillips warned his descendants not to be beguiled by Boston statues. If John Winthrop could come back and see the mass of metal representing himself on Scollay Square, what would he think? Remember however, that...
...cannot, therefore, speak too encouragingly of victory this fall. Andover is trying, with every possible effort, to perfect the deficiencies of their team by constant training and practice. They are said to spend habitually from two to three hours each day at labor with the leather, and, although they fail to meet the average weight of our eleven, they are taking every precaution to excel on those points in which ours display a weakness. From the present standing of the two rival elevens, neither can boast of superiority, and, for the sake of prediction, we proclaim the laurels of victory...
...first each freshman class used, on entering, to studiously keep away from the gymnasium, either from bashfulness or because the men failed to appreciate its advantages, but this order of things has now become changed, as is shown by a glance at the apparatus on any afternoon. In fact, the larger amount of exercise seems to be done by the two lower classes. This is a most gratifying result, and the more so because there is no system of compulsory gymnastics in vogue among us, as is the case at many other colleges. With the perfect appliances and convenient arrangements...
...some intelligent and sys emetic attention ought to be given in all our colleges to physical culture may be regarded as a universally accepted truth. The attempts thus far made among the colleges to agree upon some uniform rules for the regulation of contesting games among their students have failed, for the very simple reason that no set of rules could be framed that should be fitted to each college, and equally applicable and just to all the parties concerned. Rules that were deemed to he suited to the exigencies of one college were found to be unsuited to those...