Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...nature to be entertaining to a popular audience? Surely no devotee of Latin would acknowledge its narrowness to be of so alarming a character. Would listeners who crowd to hear Sophocles and Homer find no attractions in Lucretius and Virgil? Would those who take a rollicking delight in Aristophanes, fail to respond to Plautus...
...carrying two wallets, - one at his back, filled with his own faults, the other in front, loaded with the faults of others. The letter-box - or, if you please, the lamp-post - wears its wallet but in front. Faults of its own it has none; but when does it fail to bear the burden of others' mistakes? And do not tell me it is but a senseless object. No, take my word, it broods over all these secrets that are trustfully committed to its keeping; it ponders anxiously over the remedy to be applied here, or the check there...
...BRIGHAM, '79, has kindly consented to sing first tenor on the Glee Club. By his courtesy the Club is much strengthened, and its first concert at Quincy, next Monday evening, cannot fail to be a success. Mr. Van Raalte will probably play a violin solo...
...during the summer months would result in affording opportunity to our athletes to begin training as soon as the term opens, and would entirely do away with the possibility of such an unfortunate quandary in the future as at present exists; while the expense, we should think, could not fail of being much less than the Association will now have to incur before their track is again practically useful. The enthusiasm in regard to track athletics at Harvard, although much greater last year than ever before, is still not so intense that we can afford to let an entire season...
...small task of committing the many hundred lines which fall to Oedipus. It is very gratifying that such an undertaking should have been begun under so good auspices, and with so much enthusiasm. It should have the thorough commendation of all lovers of the classics, and it cannot fail to add to Harvard's reputation as a progressive institution...