Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fair command of English. Now, a regulation has appeared which refuses admittance to English 12, one of the most practical and useful courses in the English department, to any man who shall have fallen below a certain grade in English B; a grade which many a conscientious student may fail to reach by need of that very training which is thus forbidden him. The only reason given is the crowding of the course. If any must be deprived of the advantages it would seem to be more just to deprive those who need the advantages least...
...than by simply forbidding our nine to play with professionals. They ought to feel called upon to address a circular letter to the other colleges in the league urging the discontinuance of the present custom. We are convinced that a sober appeal from one faculty to another could not fail of bringing about the desired result. As for our own position in this matter, we are persuaded that base-ball would be elevated as a college sport through such a return to former times, thought it might lose some of the niceties which a life of "ball tossing" lends...
...appeared on Saturday, was unusually interesting. It showed a determination to awake, if possible, the sleeping energies of this college; to make Harvard represented in athletic contests, and no longer maintain a position which must indicate a lack of thoroughness and intensity in all the work here. If we fail in athletics we should fail also in our literary enterprise, unless they happen to reach beyond the pale of college opinion. Is not the law of compensation less powerful here than elsewhere? Cannot this be the reason why there is less performance? There is little here to make...
...been unexcelled, and we believe would be so now if all the men who are conscious of athletic ability would come out and help on the team. Where a man does his best for the honor of his college, he shows an honorable thing, whether he himself succeed or fail. If every athletic man would come out and work, the standard of our track athletes would certainly be raised. The freshmen are specially urged to enter their class meeting. A good freshman athlete is worth more to the college than those in the upper classes, for he will be able...
...show courage, constancy, an intelligent willingness to meet and defeat physical dangers and an ability to think connectedly in the presence of physical dangers, to an extent offered by no other form of exercise.' The game that presents such an array of purely scientific and courageous features cannot fail to merit the most universal sanction and approval, and yet newspaper criticism doubtless caused the 'general disposition to consider the game one which is objectionable as a game for students who are gentlemen.' The criticisms passed upon the game as regards its innate roughness' and of its 'tendency to degenerate into...