Word: failings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...organization, to be known as "The Officers' Fund Association," was formed during the recess by the faculty and other officers of the University, which cannot fail to be of great benefit to University interests. Its constitution provides for the creation of a fund from which necessary aid may be rendered to the family of any officer of the University who may die while in service or after retirement, or who may be disabled by sickness or other misfortune...
While skepticism broods discord and discontent, faith cannot fail to bring peace and quiet to man for that which we believe the world to be, it becomes to us. The Christian is characteristically a believer, and has ceased trying to solve those spiritual problems which are beyond the reach of the finite mind...
...shall remain in the college until they shall respectively arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age; they shall then be bound out," etc. Progress in the school-room is deemed the only proper standard of merit, and all pupils who become fifteen years of age and fail to reach the fourth school, after from five to nine years' instruction, will be required to give place to those on the list of applicants for admission...
...enable the most promising men to profit by more individual coaching. The impossiblity of devising a rule, which will be sufficiently comprehensive to decide concerning the eligibility of all candidates for the athletic teams, is shown by the fact that the rules, adopted at the beginning of the year, fail to determine whether several of the candidates are eligible to play on the nine. The athletic committee has not as yet acted upon these doubtful cases and in consequence Capt. Wiggin is somewhat retarded in his work. A decision, however, is expected in a few days...
Though President Eliot has not been in close touch with the students; though his opinions and actions have often not been in accord with undergaduate sentiment or judgment; no member of the University can fail to feel gratitude toward him for the position he has so well helped Harvard to maintain. This gratitude would find its suitable expression on an occasion like the coming anniversary. What form such an expression should take, we do not suggest. The idea should come, as it doubtless will, from the students themselves...