Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be seen by an item in another column, the Union has undertaken a canvass of the college on the preferences for Presidential candidates. While the result of a canvass of this sort cannot fail to be of interest as showing the relative personal popularity of the different candidates, it will indicate only in a very slight degree the political bias of the students. We think that most Harvard men vote more for principles than for men. Therefore the votes of most students will be determined largely by the actions of the two parties between this time and the time...
...Frothingham is new in the art. The bar was started at five feet six inches, which seemed unnecessarily low. The vaulting was not up to what it was been in some years, but the man who excelled in that sport graduated with '83. Frothingham was the first to fail, at 8 feet 7 1-2 inches. At 9 feet both the other contestants failed. The result is a tie between Mandell and Field...
...residence at a great university lies not alone in the opportunities offered for the acquisition of learning, but in the surroundings. When one is constantly thrown in contact with a circle of men whose only aim is to know the best the world can offer, he can not fail, however thoughtless he may be, to be influenced in the direction of good. It is this circle of the older professors at Harvard that makes us fell proud of our university and it is to their personality that we shall look back when we shall have gone forth from her walls...
...Walsh, '84, and H. F. Mandell, '84. The bar was started at 5 feet 6 inches. Carey was the first to receive applause on account of his peculiarly graceful trim and the bar was raised several times before anyone dropped out. Bachelder was the first to fail. Howard followed, then Carey, Mandell and Fessenden. This left the two tallest men, Atkinson and Walsh, to compete for the first and second prizes. Walsh failed at last and Atkinson continued to vault and made a record of 7 feet 3 3-4 inches. This beats the best Harvard and amateur records...
...call the attention of the junior class to the fact that, unless fifty names are put down on the book at Bartlett's for the class dinner before tonight, the dinner will have to be given up. There are many men who are able to attend, but who fail to put down their names through a spirit of negligence or indifference. These we would urge to sign at once, as only about half the required number of names has been obtained, and every man who can go should hesitate no longer in putting down his name. Surely there are fifty...