Word: happen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard has been beaten by Yale in debate. A year ago we would have flatly denied that such a thing could happen. Yet to an outsider who was carefully watching the preparations going on at the two Universities this year the result of the debate would have seemed inevitable. The truth is we threw away our chances of defeating Yale. We lost interest, relaxed our efforts, we were beaten, and we deserved to be beaten. If the spirit which has characterized the debating interests here from the time of the Princeton Debate continues, our representatives will as surely be defeated...
...missed, because the men after it did not know which man was to catch the ball. Once three men could have caught a foul, but it fell uncaught because of the confusion caused by the other players calling upon the different men to catch it. This ought never to happen again. The players ought to understand that it is the captain's place to call out who is to take the ball, and if his voice alone is heard there will be no confusion. When two men start for a high fly, the one calling out "I have it" should...
...fixed quantity. There is a general impression that these notes are different from the U. S. Notes, in that, while the latter will always be redeemed in gold, the former may at some future date be redeemed in silver. But the community may rest assured that this will never happen...
...domination of this motive, in a perverted form, over the pure love of sport. When, furthermore, the latter becomes obscured, teams are selected not from the large body of men who are fond of athletics, but only from the smaller number who are in sympathy with those who happen to be in control at any time and with the particular policy by which the latter seek to obtain victory and honor. If on the other hand the calls for candidates for our teams asked every one to come out who was fond of baseball, or football, or rowing...
...conference of charity workers will be held at the house of Professor Peabody, Kirkland street, this evening, at 7.45 o'clock. Invitations have been sent out to men whose names happen to be on the lists of the director. But the committee desires to extend a general invitation to all men who have been engaged during the year in any form of charitable, educational or religious work of whatever kind...