Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second start. hazard, '85, was master of hounds and after the seven minutes of allowance was up he led off a pack of 19 hounds. The course led over the iron bars between Harvard and Hollis on to the Common. Here the hounds were soon at fault, for mischievous boys had taken up some of the plentiful paper scent and marked out a false track toward Christ Church and into a neighboring yard. After several minutes of precious time had been wasted in investigating this trick, the hounds once more took up the scent on Concord Avenue to the Arsenal...
...sent to mostly every undergraduate last spring, soliciting subscriptions but two-thirds of these were never returned. One man returned three, without his name upon them, as a joke. If every man would come forward and subscribe, if not $5, at least $2, $1 or even 50 cents, no fault could be found. The subscription table enclosed will afford information as to the number and the distribution of subscriptions, so I will not enroach further upon your space. Permit me through your columns to thank Messrs. Minot and W. R. Wilson, '86, who so kindly assisted me last year; also...
...bring the subject of elocution before the college at large, is an excellent one. The study of elocution is one which is too much neglected here, and which languishes rather from the students' tendency to keep in the regular rut to which they are accustomed, than from any fault of the study itself. Those who do take up elocution generally become enthusiastic over it, but their number is too small to make an impression upon the great mass of the indifferent. The plan proposed by the founders of the Shakespeare Club is a step in the right direction...
...which the various Harvard teams are composed. Only men who have been noted for good playing, or rowing, when at school attempt to gain positions on any of our teams, and a large majority of such men in the different classes do not even try. It may be the fault of the management that not enough inducement has been held out to make the men try for positions. The position that Harvard holds in rowing and field athletics is, without doubt, due to the efficient management of the respective associations, but the scarcity of good, not brilliant, foot-ball...
...increased to the utmost, that the burden incurred for sending men to the games may be lightened as much as possible. To this end we urge the H. A. A. to influence the committee in charge for next year to have a little more care that this fault is remedied in the future...