Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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College men should be interested in the exhibition of Mr. Donaghue's statues, now in progress at Horticultural Hall. While the figure modeled from Sullivan cannot fail to attract attention as a wonderfully realistic presentation of the modern athlete, as contrasted with the Greek types with which we are so familiar, the other statues show inspiration, of a higher sort. It is indeed encouraging to see classic subjects treated by an American sculptor with such freshness of conception and such spirit and success in execution. A more charming figure than that of "The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus after...
...necessary, but it is a pleasanter way to find the source of the unnecessary expense in careless management than in the place where it really exists; i. e., in the negligence, carelessness, dishonesty, or whatever you may choose to call it, of the men who promise subscriptions and fail to pay them...
...years has received as wages $60 a month. Sixty times twelve are 720. The management has saved thirty dollars on that item! A request for an itemized account of subscriptions would have been quite as rational and much more profitable, as it would show how many men fail to subscribe to the crew. Subscriptions fell of $1000 from the amount subscribed...
...TOWNSEND, Secretary.H. U. B. B. C.- All candidates for the University nine who have not received their hours for gymnasium work will come to my room from 10 to 11 or from 12 to 1 to-day without fail...
...control the actions of the steward and to keep an actual watch on the nature of the food served, in place of continuing the absolute farce of a student board of directors, meets with our heartiest approval. That this student board is of necessity a farce, no one will fail to recognize who knows anything of its methods of work. We are in the position to note that in the past four years not a single action has been taken by any board of directors to effectually influence the course pursued by the steward. It is not in the nature...