Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduates of the larger colleges, such as Yale and Harvard. The fact that thirty per cent, of the men chosen by the reading public to represent American literature, received their education at Harvard disproves this statement as far as the graduates of that college are concerned. This result cannot fail to be satisfactory to the graduates of that college, particularly as, with the exception of a few men who were almost unanimously chosen, the votes which elected these men did not come from Harvard. It is by such indications that we feel assured that college men have not yet ceased...
...wish to thank the tennis association, in behalf of the college, for their decision in regard to the tenure of courts. Their action in making the courts common property cannot fail to give satisfaction to all interested in tennis as well as increase the interest in that sport-the only sport available for individuals. It is unfortunate now that the association has come to such a rational arrangement, that the ground at their disposal should be so limited. We hope that the faculty in considering the claims of the various teams to the ground still left will not forget those...
...true that but nine men at a time on one side can engage in base-ball; it is also true that there are nine hundred and fifty men in college, for whom for many reasons it is desirable that some form of athletic sport should be open; but we fail to see in what respect the game of base-ball loses in value on account of either of these facts. We are not aware of any other athletic sport in which many more than nine men at a time can be engaged. In foot-ball there are eleven, in lacrosse...
...Clarke, '84, takes an occasional row with the crew, but will not begin regular training until the first of May. The crew, though giving great promise of success, has not yet reached perfection. The men are not rowing with enough uniformity. Those on the starboard side often fail to draw their oars clear through, and in the middle of the boat there is a break in the time, occasioned by number five, who does not heave back his shoulders with the others. A few more individual "peculiarities" are noticeable. No. 2 shoots his hands out slowly. No. 3 dips...
...first things one looks at on taking up Harper's Monthly are the illustrations. In this respect the April number can not fail to satisfy the most exacting. Mr. Closson offers to us the first result of his trip to Europe in his reproduction of part of Murillo's "Immaculate Conception;" all lovers of engraving in wood can not but feel that this picture alone is worth more than the price of the magazing. The other features among the illustrations are the drawings of Mr. Gibson, illustrating Mr. Roe's novel. Mr. Dielman's drawing for the same novel...