Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...three times the ushers were obliged to separate the sparrers, to the amusement of the audience. After a long consultation the judges decided the bout in favor of Mr. Guiteras, who will finally contest with Mr. Gaston tomorrow, when any entries in "feather-weight" sparring - hitherto omitted through oversight - may also be made...
...exercise is given to those who desire it, and a sufficient supply of good oarsmen is insured to form a crew, should one be desired, which can pull with the 'Varsity. There is no regular coach for the men now; Mr. Bancroft himself gives to their work the necessary oversight. They are doing a steady, moderate amount of work, which will, of course, be increased as spring approaches...
REFERRING to the Princeton-Harvard foot-ball game, the Princetonian says: "Owing to some misunderstanding on the part of the Harvard Foot-ball Directors, no one called for us, and we were consequently forced to find our own way out to Cambridge. But this apparent neglect was purely an oversight, as the after-treatment of our hosts most conclusively proved. Once in the company of these gentlemen, the time passed very quickly...
...College for this; at least we do not intend to, for we would fain fancy the appropriation as old as Class Day itself, and that while the classes have grown, and the expenses grown as well, the sum originally given has been maintained, and no increase made, merely from oversight, or perhaps it has never been asked for. Possibly the present Senior class will enjoy their Class Day the more from understanding their share in the transformation that ensues a day or two before Class Day, and understand why there are "necessary Class-Day expenses...
...match-vases only, and, after being used, must be carefully extinguished," Another sheaf of garnered wisdom is instructively presented thus: "Great care must be taken not to let pins, pencils, or other small articles drop into the pianos." But right here this leads us to remark the strange oversight of the writers of these bright sayings. For instance, in this last the articles are limited to small ones; now stoves or coal-hods, or even axes, would certainly injure the tone of pianos into which they are dropped, the opinion of Cambridge firemen to the contrary, not withstanding...