Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opposition will say that with training a man is put on his honor, and breaking training is equivalent to breaking his word. Hence, the prevailing contempt of the act. This is as it should be. But why the breaking of mental training is any the less contemptible, we fail to understand. Perhaps the weight of moral responsibility is less imminent in the latter case, but the fact that probation permanently deprives the team of services which should be rendered, as well as failure to uphold one half of the academic contract, should more than outweigh any other argument in favor...
...Athletic Committee has had to abolish the swimming team once, and we may expect that swimming will not be recognized again until it is reasonably certain of having the continued interest of undergraduates. If this interest really exists, however, the Committee can not and will not fail to recognize it. If we are ever to have a swimming team, now is the time for every man interested to come forward...
...duty in rigorously enforcing the rule that, to take part in college athletics, undergraduates shall be required to maintain a certain standard in their curriculum work. Although Harvard men are perfectly well aware that such a rule exists and is enforced, every year there appear to be some who fail to realize its true significance until actually debarred from representing the University on an athletic team. An athlete who allows himself to indulge in any loose thinking as to the finality of the rules requiring satisfactory standing in studies on his part is not only doing himself a grave injustice...
...volunteer will be excused from their College appointments tomorrow. Offering, as he does, this opportunity for an encounter with actual politics at close range, and for political service to the City of Boston, and in behalf of the wide-spread movement of good government, Mr. Smith should not fail to find ready hands and enthusiastic workers for his cause...
...connected with any team may sign the blue-books, but must not fail to designate what position they wish to play. Such men will be assigned by the management to fill vacancies. Any failure to observe these rules will cause disqualification...