Word: learn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...back of them, the University, look upon the work of the coming weeks. If after the defeat of last Saturday any considerable number of men can allow themselves to look forward in a half-hearted way to the remaining games, it means that we have not yet begun to learn the first lesson of defeat. There is strong reason for belief that this lesson has been learned. It was taught if never before by the stubborn fight at Springfield a year ago after all reasonable probability of victory was gone...
...sons of the rich." In the College at least four hundred men are wholly or in part self-supporting; the great majority of the remainder represent the middle class. True it is that the small minority of rich men's sons are trained here, but the lesson they learn is of the little avail of wealth without the recommendation of personal merit and ability. "Harvard has business only in the Back Bay and lifts her skirts away from the contamination of the North End." Had the writer himself ever approached the North End, he would not thus have exposed...
...WHITTEMORE.CERCLE FRANCAIS.- Rehearsal Thursday, Oct. 31 at 7.30, at 16 Quincy street. Men must learn their parts as soon as possible...
...have hardly had time to become acquainted with each other. But anything of the nature of demagoguism should not be tolerated for an instant. That it is not tolerated in the College at large is a lesson which it will not take long for any one at Harvard to learn...
...WALCOTT, Sec.CERCLE FRANCAIS.- Rehearsal Thursday, Oct. 31 at 7.30, at 16 Quincy street. Men must learn their parts as soon as possible...