Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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James Bryce, Esq., M. P., will lecture this evening in Sanders Theatre, at 7.30, on "The Methods by which Members of the House of Commons are chosen." As Mr. Bryce is at present one of the most active members of the English house of commons, his lecture cannot fail to be of great interest to all, and especially to the members of History...
...shivering in the face of a cold north-east wind for over half an hour before play was called. The ground was very slippery, making rushing almost impossible and good kicking not a little difficult. A glance at the teams as they entered the field could not fail to detect the great advantage of weight possessed by the New Haven eleven. In fact the Yale rush line averaged 182 pounds to Harvard...
...restrictions, as regards professional nines and trainers, as those governing the nines of the other colleges. This means that the Committee will make an effort to secure the cooperation of the other colleges in anti-professional measures,-and in this they have our best wishes,-but that if they fail in this, our nine will no longer be handicapped as it was. In such action as this, we are sure, every student will heartily support the Committee...
...last and most important game of the season. The men have worked hard and earnestly under the careful supervision of a faithful captain, and in case of victory or defeat they deserve our hearty commendation. The customary ill-luck which seems to follow the foot-ball team has not failed us this year, for the eleven will go to the field tomorrow crippled by the loss of many of its best players. At the best, our struggle with Yale could not fail to be an exceedingly close one; but, entering it as we do, with such a decided handicap...
...civilized nation attaches any importance, yet which leaves us to borrow our scholarship second-hand from them; which is now necessary for the very highest classical honors at the University of Cambridge alone; in which only one has a partial glimmering of success for lumdreds and hundreds who inevitable fail; and in which the few exceptional successes are so flagrantly useless that they can only be regarded at the best as a somewhat trivial and fantastic accomplishment an accomplishment so singularly barren of all results that it has scarcely produced a dozen original poems on which the world sets...