Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paid to the A. C. A. Another meeting will be held at the same room next Monday, at 7 P. M., for the transaction of further business. It is hoped that a large number may be present, and that no one who has any interest in this sport will fail to attend...
...From all appearances, we should judge that Columbia will fail to be represented in boating matters by a university crew. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, the men that are now in training for positions on the crew are rapidly becoming disheartened ; never was there a greater lack of system and never have the students felt less confidence in the abilities of their representative eight. It is a significant fact that the confidence of the freshmen has led them into the startling belief that eventually they will be able to constitute a university crew in themselves. This remarkable...
...artist who designed the illustration of the new Yale shell that he should have placed the cannon on the bow of the boat rather than on the stern. The two articles "So Benevolent," and "Our New Shell" are up to the average of college standard, but we fail to see the merit in that on "What do You Wear?" The arrangement of the reading matter, resembling that of Life, is very pleasing, so much so that we think the Lampoon might return to this method of arrangement with advantage. The paper contains many things that would hardly be considered appropriate...
These changes cannot fail to increase the popularity of this department among students who feel that a systematic course of instruction in their own literature is absolutely necessary for every student of Harvard. Hither to the charge against our colleges has often been that they confine themselves to given lines of instruction, and that they never go beyond these lines. The largest acquaintance with the literature of their own times and own language that many work of the courses and from their daily newspaper and magazine reading. Thorough instruction in literature, treating the masterpieces of their languages as worthy...
...subject of the Total Abstinence League. As our correspondent suggests, the size of this society is by no means a fair representation of the sentiment of the college on this subject. Many persons who really are in accord with the objects of the society, both in feeling and practice, fail to join, either from a feeling that any pledge on such a subject is objectionable or because they do not care enough about the matter to take the necessary trouble. Still the tendency of the society is a good one, and the number of members under the circumstances...