Word: incurring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second place, a failure on the part of the University to return the compliment by a gift such as the one proposed, will incur criticism in no small degree. Lastly, it seems necessary to call a meeting and raise money for the colors, simply because so many men appreciate the strength of the reasons already given...
...objections to wearing a somewhat inconvenient garment, it has been suggested that the cap only should be worn. It has also been suggested that any man wearing a Senior cap should be supposed to bow to any other Senior so attired. Although such a scheme might at first incur some ridicule, at the very least it could do harm and seems at any rate worthy of some consideration...
...outside of Cambridge for the very men most suited for this task. What more pleasing and fruitful subject could a speaker choose than "Harvard in the Past"? If the History Department of the University or some college organization could arrange such a series of lectures they would incur, I believe, the lasting gratitude of the students, of the graduates, and of all friends of our Alma Mater...
...Harvard's chances in athletics for this spring so uncertain, it is to be hoped that she will not be hampered by finding any member of any of the teams on probation. Whether probation takes him from active training merely, or from an important contest, no able athlete should incur it, however lightly he may count the penalty which he himself has to pay. We speak here only of the athlete, for it is not our purpose to lay down any of the general principles of common sense no less than of morality, which condemn the wholesale neglect of college...
...member of a team has more than a mere personal responsibility for whatever may keep him from actively sharing in the work of the team. He is unfair to his fellows if he hurts their chances by wilfully incapacitating himself; and to incur probation can hardly be anything but wilful. Through the team, too, the athlete is responsible to the college whose representative he is, and these claims of team and college should be binding even when the claims of common sense and morality above referred to, might be heedlessly set aside. In past years Harvard teams have been known...