Word: slackenings
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...tradition this is, it is high time to explode it. The College trusts to her Seniors, as the most experienced of her undergraduates, to form her policy. It is not logical that when best fitted to carry out that policy they should allow their responsibility to slacken, and permit mistakes to be made simply because they feel it their privilege to loaf...
...Conroy answered to the toast of "The Class" with a stirring plea that the enthusiasm and class energy which had hitherto been characteristic of '99 might not be allowed to slacken. B. H. Dibblee made a witty speech apropos of the boat races and the English stroke. P. G. Carleton asked for a more widespread interest in debating. One of the best features of the evening was a poem read by J. F. Brice, which was full of personal hits and allusions...
...that combat between stranger styles that unfailingly leads to good chess at New York and good chess in the University. The position of sophomore champion ('98 and '99) lies now open, besides the University championship and the four guardships. If it must be that our chess spirit shall slacken in this crisis, let it not break...
...there be never a falter. Harvard is fighting against odds, and a glorious fight it is. No Harvard man worthy the name, will be disheartened because of defeat, or will slacken in his support of the eleven. Another game remains to be played this year,- to lose which would be profoundly disastrous, to gain which by a good score would be greatly encouraging. Let us forget Yale, and make ready for Pennsylvania. The eleven will be on Jaris this afternoon at half past two to practice, and every student in Cambridge ought to be there to cheer them...
...which was outlined in Saturday's DAILY CRIMSON is not, then, the only one of its kind in America. It has, however, the advantage of definite, well limited aims, and of great practicability. It comes at the right time, and the interest in it will not be allowed to slacken until it is an assured success...