Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regarded as a benefit and an opportunity which may be used to attain better work. Little that is new can be learned from a lecture, it is true, but every lecture that is delivered by a successful, determined man, offers his hearers an inspiration which, if they accept, cannot fail to aid them in the future...
...place for exercise, and numbers among its members some of the most famous athletes of New York. Every week a "boxing-night" is announced, and the contest is generally well attended. To athletes and non-athletes alike, a visit to the club-house with its splendid appointments, cannot fail to be interesting...
...satisfactory conjecture can be made as to the answer which the authorities may make to our reasonable requests, yet we feel that there is some ground to hope for favorable action on their part. Whether the petition be granted or not, we cannot see how it can possibly fail to have a marked effect. Drawn up by a body of undergraduates composed of "representative men" in the college world; signed by an overwhelming majority of our students; supported by a petition from the leading literary society of the college, and by another from those graduates now studying...
...first time that the Natural History Society has undertaken anything in the line of public lectures. But we do not doubt that the success of to-night's lecture will justify a second attempt at some future time. The subject and the lecturer who presents it cannot fail to draw a good audience. Mr. Trelease is an interesting and eloquent speaker. Moreover, the fact that the lecture is to be illustrated will add to its value and interest...
...active interest in rowing. This contest, if instituted, could also present an admirable means for training a large number of rowers who could act as an auxiliary force to the regular crews. Such a plan, while offering some difficulties, it is true, in the matter of shells, could not fail to reach more students than the present plan of exclusive crews. And in so far as it broadened, would improve one of our most popular sports...