Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accrue only to those who go out of their way to make the necessary sacrifice of time. There are few upper classmen not fitted to compete for some prize. The competitions are long and will involve hard work but once interested in a prize subject a man can not fail to find himself more and more absorbed in a thoroughly pleasurable and certainly beneficial pursuit...
...allowed at the beginning is just the same as it always has been, while the extension at the end will make it possible for every Harvard man no matter where he lives, to spend all of New Year's Day at home. The justice of the change can not fail to appeal to all who understand the conditions...
Wendell makes three yards through Yale's left side. Potter, standing on the 25-yard line, tries an unsuccessful goal from field. Yale puts the ball in play on the 25-yard line and Spalding failed to gain. Camp fails also on a fake punt, and then punts outside bounds on Yale's 42-yard line. Potter tries an onside kick, which was recovered by Howe on Yale's 20-yard line. Camp makes three yards through Harvard's left tackle. Camp punts to Campbell on Harvard's 45-yard line. Reynolds goes in for Campbell. Wendell makes eight yards...
...today able to witness the stages by which one of the largest nations of the world is in the process of changing a medieval form of government for representative institutions of the most modern type, is perhaps hardly due to our own efforts. Yet we should not therefore fail to realize our good fortune. The movement may not be successful, but it is an event which can not fail to be considered by future generations as an epoch in the history of China...
...were to have a mass meeting every night for a week before the Yale game, as the writers suggest, perhaps our vocal efforts in the Stadium might fail to be a pleasure to the ear on the eventful day. Yet we do need mass meetings, and we shall have them--one this week and two the next, beside a football pop-night. These must, and, we believe, will be well attended so that in the two games to come we can back up our team effectively. Let us sing before the games begin and in the long waits between...