Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...express an aesthetic revolt against their drab environment? The other verse-pieces, except for an odd word here and there, like Mr. Damon's 'tinsel-snow," so fortunate in his etching of Christmas-eve, are not distinguished. The cymbals and the castonets, even the slug-horns, of the Saturnalia fail to rouse...
Application blanks for the Junior Dance to be held in the Union on Friday evening, February 19, at 9 o'clock, have been sent to all members of the class of 1917. Any who fail to receive them should see the Dance Committee at Phillips Brooks House any afternoon from 5 to 6 o'clock...
...demand, especially among the summer hotels, which have been accustomed to maintain teams to play with other hotel teams in their vicinity. Few are the college undergraduates who care to or who can afford to play for nothing, and so they are tempted to break the rules and oftentimes fail to report to the college authorities or voluntarily withdraw from participation in college athletics. Some of the eastern college, notably Brown University, have been permitting summer baseball in a restricted from and this plan will probably be proposed at the meeting next week, as the real solution of the problem...
...Athletic Association requests that all men having athletic equipment in the lockers at Soldiers Field remove it before the Christmas vacation and turn in the keys to the attendant. This request is made in order to facilitate the cleaning of the building during the recess and in case men fail to remove their paraphernalia the articles will be put together and tagged. Men are warned, however, that, even though care is exercised, considerable confusion is inevitable and may result in the loss of their belongings. Also, all locker leases expire at the vacation period and it will be necessary...
...provisionally joined should fail to come forward now; and others who waited until the Battalion became a reality should show their sense of responsibility. Said President Wilson in his message to Congress: "It would depend upon the patriotic feeling of the younger men of the country whether they responded to such a call for service or not." Harvard men have patriotic feeling; their showing at Plattsburg demonstrated that. They will respond...