Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While we are mourning over the cruel fate which compels us to toil so unceasingly at this time of year, we often forget, or at least fail to appreciate, the efforts which most of our athletic men are continually making during the examinations. They are training quietly and patiently throughout these weary weeks that Harvard may win more athletic laurels next spring. The course of training which these men have to undergo severely taxes their pluck and perseverance. Probably at examination times when they are exhausting so much of their mental energy, the strain is greater than at the time...
...students, communications, direct and to the point, on some live subject, will always find place in the paper. Educational and athletic news will be acceptable; enterprise in collecting college news is a consideration which always has much weight with us in choosing a new editor. Eighty-nine should not fail to contribute its share to the college papers...
...present state of things continues, the nine will be poorly supported. Men will take no interest in the gymnasium or out-of-door practice of their team, nor will they give it a generous support. A nine with such half-hearted backing will be very likely to fail...
...little High School contemporary informs us this month," etc. Very clearly the holiday greetings were not intended for the "little High School contemporary." The battles which exchange editors fight with each other, with such keen weapons as cutting sarcasm and irony, are closely watched by the readers, who never fail to rejoice when the blood has ceased to flow and the space in the papers is given to something more readable...
...dear friends. With the former all is bad; with the latter all is good. Here is a paper that is "little, but oh my!" and here one that is "decidedly fresh," and here a third that "is a credit to the institution which it represents. Such a paper cannot fail to arouse an interest outside its own peculiar sphere. We hope to see you often...