Word: fails
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Every member of Ninety-eight who is at all interested in debating should not fail to attend tonight's meeting for the formation of a freshman union. Aside from the direct pleasure and benefit to be derived from membership in such a union, there will always be open the possibility of participation in the Harvard - Yale debates, which for the past few years have attracted the attention of the college world. So far Harvard has been invariably successful in these debates. The formation of a freshman society should be an aid to those whose task is to keep the record...
...entered the college at the beginning of last year. He remained at Harvard until the middle of his first year, when he was forced to go to Colorado Springs, as he was suffering severely from consumption. The high altitude of Colorado affected his heart and he began to fail rapidly. In hope of relief he returned to his home again, where he died within a few months. While in Colorado he kept up with his studies, intending, if his health permitted, to enter his class this fall. He was a quiet, conscientious student, with a manly, earnest character...
...interest in rowing the Boat Club offers to lovers of out-door exercise an excellent opportunity for enjoyment of the few weeks before the shutting in of the winter season. The scheme appears like such a thoroughly good one that it would be a great pity to have it fail for want of support...
...with honor can purchase a ticket which he intends to use contrary to the plainly stated conditions of the sale. No man with intelligence can fail to see that such an affair as Class Day cannot be managed satisfactorily unless there is order, and that there cannot be order unless each man will sink his individual preferences in the will of the majority...
Among the services of President Eliot to Harvard University, the Faculty cannot fail to mention his frank and wise recognition of the fact that Harvard could not fulfil the mission he imagined for it without both the material and the intellectual wealth, which must be brought by numbers and by popular sympathy and interest. The bold adoption of this fundamental principle of action,- accepted with difficulty by many devoted lovers of Harvard, twenty-five years ago,- has enabled the University, while gaining strenth and freedom for herself; to discharge one of her highest duties to the country, by opening...