Word: failed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...finished gentleman, by the very influence of his presence and his manners, cannot fail to excite the admiration and emulation of his inferiors, no matter how much the jealousy of those inferiors may lead them to decry him. He is a fitting head for the great social body beneath him; and if his fortune will permit him to abstain from work, - by work I mean daily exertion whose ultimate object is bread-making, - he may be far more useful to the world than if his tastes and inclinations were fettered by business. But he must never be idle. Noblesse oblige...
...Samuel Osgood, of New York, proposed for the consideration of the Memorial Hall Committee the idea of forming, within the new building, a museum of old Harvard relics of history and art. This in a few years would become a collection of no small importance, and certainly could not fail to increase in interest as years go by. Whether or not any move has been made toward realizing Mr. Osgood's idea we cannot say; but we feel that no time is to be lost in taking a more general action on the subject. If the Memorial Building when completed...
...final concert of the season was given by the Pierian Sodality and the Glee Club, last evening, at Lyceum Hall, and was received with the usual favor by their many friends, who could not fail to appreciate and enjoy the carefully selected and well-rendered pieces which the programme offered...
...expect that its art should not be so too? Men of to-day are confused by the magnitude and the number of the questions which Religion, Science, Literature, and Philosophy put to them so sharply and so remorselessly. Is it strange, then, that they are without convictions, and therefore fail...
...Lilies fail away...