Word: shame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...answer to this criticism of Harvard. But it does seem extraordinary that when so many men are daily thrown into athletic competition, there is not aroused such an emulation that there is no possibility of success against the crimson in any branch of athletics. It is a burning shame that when Harvard might so easily hold the field unrivalled, she is forced to make such desperate efforts to maintain herself as first...
...there ever was a perfect performance, the rendering of the overture deserves to be called perfect. So vividly were Manfred's sorrows, his despair and noble defiance of fate brought before the listener that when the last low notes died away it seemed a shame that the illusion should be destroyed. Liszt's symphonic poem was given with the usual success, and seemed to be the most popular number on the programme...
...funds to provide for erecting a building for the school purposes. The Greek government has offered to present the school with a site, for this building, valued at $13,500. Prof. White, in concluding, refers to this proposal in the following terms: "It will be to our enduring shame if we do not at once respond to this generous offer of the Greek Government, and provide for our school a permanent and fitting home at Athens...
...learn that up to yesterday afternoon eighty-four freshmen had applied for pages at the library and begun to take books. This is truly a good showing for eighty-nine, and indicates that the disuse of the library which has been a shame to some other classes has got to be a thing of the past. Unfortunately for eighty-nine, however, it has not had the advantage of such a talk as was given by Mr. Kiernan last year in regard to the proper method of using the library. No doubt that gentleman can be prevailed upon to repeat...
...much trust in the result of the race. Too much praise cannot be given Captain Storrow, who, without the valuable services of a coach and with the rawest material from which to select, has succeeded in getting together a crew of which Harvard need feel no shame, whatever may be its success at New London. Let the crew remember that it is on the water that Harvard has ever looked for success with the greatest confidence, and that defeat there is felt most grievously. The college bids you good by, and hopes and believes that you will not break...