Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While Prof. Royce cannot return to work on Friday, he hopes without fail to be present at all his lectures on Monday...
...something important was going on. The announcement of the examinations was the cause of the excitement as it is every year. That this announcement was welcome to anyone would be an overdrawn assertion but that some men thought it a degree more bearable than others, no good observer could fail to notice. The man who finds all his examinations coming within the first five days and that he will then have a two weeks' vacation, looks triumphantly at the struggling mortal next to him who sees with horror that his first comes on Jan. 27th and his last on February...
...become a characteristic of all the larger and many of the less numerous courses. These examinations are out of accord with the tendency of study at Harvard, and mark retrogression to the days of term examinations and required studies. Many lazy ones are caught in the trap, but we fail to see what good accrues to them by the operation, while for those who are working earnestly a deviation from good work to ill-advised "cramming" is the result. The hour examination is not a benefit to anyone...
...HAMBLETON.CHESS TOURNAMENT.- Contestants are reminded that all games are to be played off and reports handed in by this evening at 32 Weld, as the final rounds will have to be begun without fail on Monday...
...gymnasium as well as on the field. They will accomplish the purpose for which they are held, only if men go in with a will and train for them faithfully. Every athletic man in college ought to feel that it would be partly his fault if Harvard should fail to win the cup this year, and for that reason ought to take every opportunity to help on the work of the team...