Word: failed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...true genius is, that it commends itself to the appreciation of those ignorant of artistic rules. There is nothing that will so draw a man out of himself, and make him forget the petty annoyances of a work-a-day world, as the society of pictures. A book may fail to fix our wandering thoughts, because in reading an appreciable effort of attention is always necessary; but no effort is required to get into the spirit of a beautiful landscape, or to lose one's self in the contemplation of a beautiful face...
...brought into play. It is assumed that even the most degraded, whose name has once been signed to a promise, will hesitate before he breaks that promise. Now in the majority of cases it is probable that but little compunction of conscience is felt by such men, when they fail to keep their word. What is needed is first to raise them up so that they may have a due respect for the promise. And when, either through religious excitement, interest in business, or separation from vulgar scenes, they once reach this point, no longer does the need...
...large number of men, and they make up a considerable part of the students, whose ambition is not great, nor incompatible with occasional excess. Their position is such that they lose no friends, if they are only prudent, whatever they may do. In such cases a pledge would fail, for all to a man would refuse to sign it. Nor do they need such a thing. They drink too much just as they eat too much; no particular harm results in either case except to the individual...
...final argument, that intercollegiate contests would promote the cause of education, if true, is certainly an admirable reason for their adoption. But that truth we fail to see. The writer has certainly proved it nowhere; he only claims it. And there is surely something weak in an argument which says because boating was made intercollegiate and flourished, that therefore education will be promoted under a system of intercollegiate literary contests...
...smoothly enough; then why try, by circulating discontented and inflammatory ideas, to create dissension and ill-feeling among the different sets in a class? We are very much obliged to all who favor us with contributions, and hope that the writers to whom we have alluded will not fail to continue to write for us, provided they will make a note of what we have said, and write on kindlier matters. The Magenta is not the "Iconoclast...