Word: happen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...error in trying to reach third by forcing a throw to second, and was put out. Abbott, also, through bad coaching was thrown out at home for trying too much on his three bagger. Once Sullivan was not on second when badly needed there. Such mistakes should not happen...
...this case, however, he is depriving not himself alone, but many others a great deal worthier than he. Yet unless the better element in Memorial Hall can succeed in overcoming this objectionable tendency on the part of the others, prohibitory measures must be adopted. The warning of what may happen ought to be sufficient to guarantee that there will be no further abuse of the present privileges. If it is not, however, we can safely say, that the threat of closing the gallery will not be found to be a hoax, and that the Board of Directors will adopt that...
...against which we wish to protest for the sake of the reputation of Harvard men as gentlemen. We refer to the deplorable practice of hissing and stamping whenever a man appears in the gallery with his hat on his head. Whether ladies are present or not the same things happen. If after Vesper services, for instance, a man in a crowd walks into the gallery with his head covered, the disgraceful uproar at once begins. The visitors do not realize the meaning of it; too often they think it is a personal insult and are forced in common decency...
...improvement. based on the experiences which are gained from year to year. Yet Harvard cannot be said to have progressed much in this line. We seem to be as far off as ever from knowing the cause of our repeated defeats on the water. At least if we do happen to know them, there is no one who is so thoroughly a master of the situation that he can lay down definitely the best methods to follow. Tradition, as Professor Trowbridge says, is the only way we have of passing from one crew to another the knowledge accumulated from constant...
...were as liberal as they might have been. We hope that upon more mature consideration, the spirit which has previously characterized Yale and won her the respect of all, will exert a stronger influence and eventually demand that the right be done. We believe that this is what will happen, and that the much vexed question will come to a satisfactory conclusion...