Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evening were not commissions, that it was rather ill-management than ill will that led to the discomforts of the affair. The subtle and delicate sympathy for the members of the Pierian which evidently inspired the men to make the aspersions on the management of the Tennis Association, cannot fail to have a softening influence on the cold and biting memories of that night...
...gymnasium. We understand that the number which makes daily appearance is less than that requisite for a full base-ball team. Harvard College does not keep freshmen at their work because they obtain liberty for the first time in their lives during their first winter here, and fail to understand the right use of it. But now it is about time that the follies of the first term should be cast aside and some work accomplished. The class of '90 made an unenviable reputation in base-ball, and if '91 is trying to follow that illustrious example...
Notwithstanding the rapidly approaching mid-years, none should fail to go to Sever 11 this evening at quarter of seven and hear President Eliot's address on "College Public Opinion...
...committee recommend that the boat club exercise a little more discretion in their expenditures, limiting them to the money which is actually subscribed. This is the proper attitude without doubt, although the advantages of a launch are so great that the college ought not to fail in giving the requisite means for its running expenses. The gift of the base-ball management, on condition of the raising of the remaining $800, is indeed a great help, and, although removed for some days, it will be news to most of the students, who supposed that the Boat Club was, indeed...
...auditing of accounts by this committee and the submitting of the result of its labors to the college is a benefit, the value of which we cannot over-estimate, for it cannot fail to destroy the belief, which has been current to some extent in an indisposition on the part of the athletic organizations to have anything to say to the students, except to get subscriptions...