Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resolutions recently passed have this tendency? We think not, and in order to show wherein they fail, we shall first consider them separately, and then set forth their effect on the various athletic sports in college...
...subject at the recent dinner of the New York Harvard Club by Brayton Ives. as representative of the University Club of New York City. Mr. Ives presents in an eloquent manner the claims of such clubs to a position of public usefulness. To college men his words can not fail to be of interest. He said...
...exercise will be possible, and the inter-collegiate contests at hand. The time for preparation is limited and each man wishes to know what to expect, whether the resolutions will be put in force and college athletics make a radical change, or whether the necessary number of colleges will fail to ratify and athletics continue in the old ruts. It is very annoying to hear that this or that college faculty have postponed or delayed their decision in the matter. Where so many colleges are concerned it is nothing more than a matter of courtesy for each...
...Historical Society, is certainly encouraging to that organization. The only drawback was the lack of room, which clearly shows that Sever Hall is not the place for the remaining lectures of the course. Why a lecture in Sanders should be such a rare treat to us we fail to understand. The principal reason that suggests itself is the fear of the lecturer being unable to distinguish his audience among so many empty seats. But this fear need not trouble the succeeding lecturers before the Historical Society as the success of the course is assured...
...particular study to the subjects of which they treat. Two or three of the lectures, however, will be given by civilians, but by gentlemen none the less competent to discuss their subjects. Lectures of this sort by such finished historical scholars as John C. Ropes and Dr. Channing cannot fail to be of interest, if for no better reason as presenting an instructive contrast in the point of view of the military operations described, taken by the civilian and by the actual soldier...