Word: failings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hallowell '01, W. F. Garcelon L.S. '95 and E. J. Wendell '82 made short addresses. The announcement was made of the presentation of a cup by A. W. Blakemore '97 and H. W. Foote '98 to be competed for in the two mile run by those men who fail to make the track team...
...instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during the last ten years. Zola has betrayed Truth; he has made up his mind to depict human nature as ugly, and accordingly all classes fail to recognize themselves as he depicts them. In defence of this pessimistic attitude of Zola, the reply should be that one cannot expect an artist to paint things as they really are; but to paint things as he sees them. Zola is in this an artist, his novels have qualities...
...thoroughly democratic. The Harvard Union is a club to which every member of the University is welcome on the payment of a small admission fee. . . . . Even now, after an existence of a few weeks, it has aroused such united enthusiasm as the University has never known; and it cannot fail now and always to promote the best kind of democracy...
...want every man who played on this year's Freshman team, both first eleven and substitutes, to report without fail in my room, 15 Russell, at 7.30 this evening...
...Diavolo" have been given in a most satisfactory manner, and the enthusiasm of those who have witnessed the performances has been marked. For the first few weeks this venture, so full of possibilities for the enrichment of our musical life is distinctly on trial, and it must fail unless it has support. For this reason all Harvard men are asked to aid the project in every way by arousing the enthusiasm of those who do not know of it and by direct patronage. The prices have been made very low--the best seats for only one dollar and good seats...