Word: failings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...however, an old failing of Harvard men and the teams representing them to be too sure of success in the important contests and for this very reason to fail to do all that they are capable of. It is to be hoped that this will remain an old failing and that the University will not be guilty of it again. Self-reliance is a good quality until it leads to carelessness. If the ability of the crew to learn is only as great as that of Mr. Lehmann to teach and if the rest of us are not afflicted with...
FRENCH PLAY.- All men who have tickets for Saturday kindly return the unsold ones by tonight without fail...
...third speaker for Harvard was Fletcher Dobyns '98. He began by a concise and clear analysis of the question at issue, saying that the only question was as to the relative merits of the gold and the bimetallic standards. Any ratio which the negative could offer would fail. If the ratio adopted were 16 to 1, this would be an attempt to double the value of silver by government fiat. Whatever the ratio, business men would prefer gold to silver, because the former is certainly stable. Business domands certainty as to the future. How could it be shown that some...
...have not sold their tickets for the 29th bring them to the rehearsal this evening without fail...
FRENCH PLAY.- Rehearsal of whole play in G. A. R. rooms this evening at seven o'clock. Turkish ceremony be there at 8.30; all others-cast, ballet, singers (including trios), laquais (Bouve and Wheeler), at 7 sharp. Every one must be present without fail...