Word: failings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lectures open to the members of the University and their friends. Such a scheme has much to commend it, and ought not to be lightly dismissed. Popular lectures at a convenient hour of the day would be an agreeable and legitimate addition to our University curriculum and could not fail to attract widespread interest. The audiences at evening lectures and readings are necessarily limited to members of the University and the Cambridge public. Vespers and the glass flowers are at present the only attractions for other friends of the University. It is to be hoped that those who have this...
...football managers, graduate and undergraduate, before any final decision is made. It seems very probable that this discussion will be amplified so as to take in other colleges and lead, if possible, to some arrangement common to all in the official regulation of the game. Should such an arrangement fail, Yale will have to face alone the question of abolishing or modifying the game...
...large number of Dr. Holmes's letters which have great interest and the rare personal charm which entered into his autobiographical work. The preparation of the book will in the nature of things take considerable time. But when it does appear, coming from Mr. Morse's pen, it cannot fail to be a literary event of the first importance, and an interesting contribution to our literature. The request of Judge Holmes that any persons having letters of Dr. Holmes will send them as loans to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, or to A. P. Watt, Esq., Hastings House, Norfolk street Strand...
...Wendell Phillips Club. Of "Wendell Phillips and the Orators of his Time" Mr. Garrison is peculiarly fitted to speak. He has had unusual opportunities for becoming acquainted with the private life of Wendell Phillips, of whom his father was an intimate friend; and his address can, therefore, not fail to be of great interest...
...allows visitors to attend during meal hours would ordinarily be decidedly improper, and never has been allowed in Memorial Hall except on suffrance. Yet, under these circumstances, the directors would not feel at liberty to break down an established custom if they were not convinced that other measures would fail to preserve the order that is necessary, and that a gentleman ought to feel called upon to maintain in a place of such a public nature. Last year threats by the directors and editorials in the college journals failed to produce the desired result. For these reasons it was deemed...