Word: fear
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hall. Owing to the illness of Mr. McKim it was not possible to secure his opinion until late last month, when he approved the plan. However, after examining the detailed design of the clock, which came last week, the Corporation voted against placing a clock on University Hall for fear that it might deface the building. In view of this action, the committee felt that it was now too late after the John Harvard celebration to begin work again on a new form of a memorial, and they therefore recommended that the plan be dropped...
...still hangs fire. No one doubts the effectiveness of such a step in checking this abominable violation of a Harvard man's privilege, and most of us are agreed that it is the only way to forestall future offenses. The chief objection of the Athletic Committee has been the fear of doing injustice to men whose names have been forged, or who have been guilty only of carelessness in disposing of their tickets...
...most deplorable part of the editorial is its proposed remedy for an imagined injustice. The idea of members of a voluntary co-operative association striking" against themselves would appear ludicrous to us, if we did not fear that it might breed among the misinformed results utterly ruinous to the purposes of the Association. What is needed is not the threat of repudiation of a bona fide debt by withdrawal, but rather an earnest attempt to insure a larger membership in order that the obligations of the Association may be more widely apportioned and the price of board for each individual...
...pleased by the tone of the letter, and at the same time agitated,--pleased because an authority is reassuring us in our belief in football especially, and intercollegiate athletics as a whole; agitated because we cannot read the letter without a return of the fear that we are to lose the very object praised...
Several experienced men who have not been out before this year reported for track work yesterday. The coaches are quite satisfied with the number of candidates, but fear that the team will be handicapped by the failure of several men of ability to appear. More Freshman candidates are needed for the weight events...