Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cricket Club is not dead, then, after all. It has only been hibernating and proposes to awake from its slumbers in the spring. But it has not been the fault of the gentlemen who composed the club that its record of late has been so uneventful. They have been working, as it were, with tied hands, owing to their inability to secure proper grounds on which to practice their favorite sport. Their efforts to obtain better accommodations have at last, however, been crowned by success, and with new and beautiful grounds it is but fair to expect the club...
...task for their conduct in "crawling" from the foot ball match with Harvard. The Record in closing its editorial says: "There are more euphonious terms than 'crawl,' but none more expressive," and then concludes by adding: "Whatever may be said as to the wisdom of the captain, the chief fault lies, without doubt, with those men who did not care enough for the athletic honor of their college to forego the little pleasure of which an early return would deprive them. The longer they stay at Yale, the better will they learn that athletic success is the result of individual...
...indefiniteness of the announcements of the meetings of the Shakspere club is probably what has put our correspondent at fault. The meeting to-morrow evening is to be a public...
...faculty. This was somewhat surprising; but within twenty-four hours the paper was in New Haven. Now how in the world, we could play before Thanksgiving, we should like to have somebody show us. Still Yale claims that they gave us every chance to play, and it was no fault of theirs if there was no game. But now comes the funny part. On receipt of our certificate those delightfully vacillating freshmen again assembled and voted to play on the 29th...
...third meeting and decided not to play after all. With beautiful disregard they here dropped the matter. They were not accountable for our actions-what mattered it if we all did come down to New Haven? By a mere chance we were saved the useless trip; it was no fault of theirs, though. Now we leave you to decide if the game is not justly ours...