Word: happened
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...happen to receive this very day a letter from South Carolina which contains a passage so apropos that I cannot help quoting it. The writer speaks of a student, of I know not what Southern college, who is in the house. "I asked him about the tone of honor among them. He said a man he knew from near here cheated in his Latin examination. It was known to the other men, who told their friends, and the fellow was dropped completely. He had no friends-all cut him-and at last he could stand it no longer, so cleared...
...success in the struggle for the cup next spring. Any failure of the candidates to improve every opportunity for practice is likely to render futile the efforts of the H. A. A. for success next spring. It is to be hoped that such delinquency may not happen again...
...should like to ask, now that there have been so many complaints about the library, why the gas over the gymnasium step cannot be lit before dark. It is a great inconvenience to have to feel one's way down the steps, and moreover accidents are likely to happen. There are no gas pipes to be laid as in the case of the library. The lights are already there, and it would cost but little to pay for the extra amount of gas consumed, and would save a great amount of grumbling on the part of those who frequent...
...foot-ball players cannot obey the rules set down by the Inter-collegiate Foot-Ball Association, those rules provide that such players shall be ruled off the field. It is all very well for these gentlement to claim that the foul tackle was an accident, or did not happen at all, but it is a poor excuse to attribute the loss of the same to the decision of a referee who is an acklowledged authority on matters pertaining to foot-ball. As a matter of fact, at the very time when Cowan was ruled off, our men had approached very...
...possible, the sleeping energies of this college; to make Harvard represented in athletic contests, and no longer maintain a position which must indicate a lack of thoroughness and intensity in all the work here. If we fail in athletics we should fail also in our literary enterprise, unless they happen to reach beyond the pale of college opinion. Is not the law of compensation less powerful here than elsewhere? Cannot this be the reason why there is less performance? There is little here to make a man sacrifice his personal affairs and take up the cause of his college...