Word: failings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...STONE, JR., Sec.'VARSITY GLEE CLUB. - Rehearsal of fall club at 6.30 sharp. Every man please come without fail...
...been decided to enlarge the Mandolin Club. Heretofore the number of mandolins has been restricted to six; thus the club has always lacked a breadth and volume of tone. The change proposed cannot fail to ensure success for the coming season, as talent is not lacking...
...establishing a high stand honorary society in Sheff. On just what lines the society will be formed is not yet known. It is certain, however, that eligibility for membership will not be based wholly upon past work, but general ability will also be a requisite. Hence membership can hardly fail to be a much sought for honor. The following committee from the class was elected to act in conjunction with a committee from the Faculty to look into the matter with power to act: J. W. Roe of Brooklyn, I. W. Greer of Central Village, Conn., and F. E. Newton...
...attain it are often by that very fact thought justified. This should not be so. The true sportsmanlike spirit, so often referred to yet so often forgotten, should be present at all times and under all circumstances, unflinchingly condemning the slightest deviation from gentlemanly play. Where rules must always fail, the cultivation of this spirit will raise football to its proper plane as probably the finest of athletic games...
...expectation of the Yale Andover Club to award annual prizes of considerable worth to the two men from Phillips Andover Academy who pass the best entrance examination for the academic and scientific departments respectively. This plan cannot fail to be of great benefit both to this preparatory school and to the University. The club will give up its annual banquet, believing that little actual benefit is afforded through it, and will hold, later in the year, a joint Andover-Exeter reunion, thus keeping alive among the students an interest in their preparatory school. This new precedent inaugurated by the Andover...