Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...open until five o'clock on Saturdays, as on other days, instead of being closed at one. It often happens that a man is obliged, by illness or other causes, to cut his laboratory work for a few days. He thus gets behindhand in his work, yet through no fault of his own. If the laboratories were open on Saturday afternoon it would be a great boon to such students, enabling them to make up, without obliging them to cut or crowd other things as important, which they may have on their hands. It seems to me that such...
...mind of anyone who has been a constant spectator at the practice games that with the material at hand only the most diligent work on the part of every member of the team will enable Yale to make a good showing in the championship games. The most glaring fault in the play of the team as a whole has been thus far a tendency to high tackling. Although a great improvement has been noticeable in the general play of the team in the last practice game with Wesleyan, it was not sufficient to warrant any great expectations, as the large...
...grand fault of freshman teams is an over-confidence which, prophesying victory, thinks superfluous the careful and minute preparation success demands. Anything then that tends to educate men in athletics or to cultivate interest in them is of vital importance to the freshmen as a body, as a counterpoise to the above mentioned error of over confidence, and individuals would do well to bear in mind that the training they can get by trying for their crew may serve them well later, when, being older, rougher and more fully developed, their ambition may be the 'Varsity crew...
...spring series. It has unfortunately become the custom here at Harvard for men rather to look down upon this excellent sport and to say with a would-be-knowing air, "Pshaw, the cricket eleven never does anything!" Even were this assertion true-which it is not-whose fault is it? We would like to put the question, "What has ever been done among the students at large to encourage or help those who are trying to introduce the game of cricket to its proper position in the athletic sports of Harvard?" The answer is, "Little or nothing...
About thirty-five hundred persons witnessed the game. Mr. Fulmer was the umpire and there was much fault to be found with his umpiring. The Glee and Banjo Clubs gave a concert in the yard in honor of Yale, but the Yale boys were compelled to leave for Boston immediately after the game. The score...