Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...encouraged and implored, by turns, to vanquish Yale, but all to no purpose. Something must be done, and that before the coming game. Why not make the admission of the freshman class to the tree on class day conditional on their defeat of Yale? When all other means fail, a direct appeal to their own interest like this may perhaps affect them...
...opposition to this foolish attack upon its interests and their own. The Co-operative Society may be only an experiment, but as such the students of Harvard are bound to give it every opportunity and all possible aid in proving its usefulness and justifying its establishment. If it fails it will fail because of other reasons than the puerile opposition of officious outsiders and busybodies...
...ephemeral, but lasting. While the general interest here seems to be in creasing, it seems strange that more active interest is not displayed. The managers of the club have shown considerable and commendable activity in getting the members together, arranging meets, etc., but the members of the club fail to respond, and the meets are poorly attended. Let us hope that more active interest will be shown in this matter, and that the far-famed Harvard indifference may not extend its blighting influence to this branch of our athletic sports...
...devoid of the fire of genius, as Mary Anderson. Miss Mather is designed by her managers to burst upon the astonished gaze of the American public with all the effulgence of last year's comet; but we fear that with whatever eclat her advent is heralded, she will fail utterly to dazzle her beholders...
...books in Cambridge than in other places. The Co-operative Society, as all such institutions, has been formed with the best possible motives, the good of a large number and the intentional injury of no one. All belligerent onslaughts of those who find their pleasant monopolies tampered with cannot fail to be perfectly inane, and can only hasten their long-deferred deserts...