Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reversed, and the graceful Virgil holding his scroll of verses turns his back upon the blind bard. It is to be hoped that this error will be corrected, as it might be at a small expense and trouble. If one did no know of the fault, one would probably fail to detect it, yet after it has been pointed out, it lets us see and think of nothing else. There is a certain appropriateness in the juxtaposition of Homer and Virgil, which in some of the other windows is sadly lacking Men who in no wise belong together...
...continually tempted to complain that the faculty fail to give us one advantage and another which the students of other colleges enjoy. It is, therefore, particularly pleasant to occasionally congratulate ourselves on the points in which we are more favored than others. Most of us take the reading room very much of course, and hardly think to thank the powers that be for the pleasure and profit we derive from it, or realize that even such a well equipped college as Harvard has no such institution. A recent editorial in one of the Harvard papers laments that "While Yale...
...colleges are too few to warrant the ever-recurring interruptions. Athletic sports are admirable when engaged in, as means to health and physical vigor. but when pursued for their own sake, or as a preparation for intercollegiate contests to which college duties are to be subordinated, the result cannot fail to be mischievous...
...does not know that the object set before his boy and girl at school is, not the gradual healthy development of their mental power and ability for usefulness, but a certain number of marks, a high place in their class, some paltry distinction on graduating day. Pupils thus fail to perceive how utterly factitious and worthless these successes are a week after they will leave the school. The argument of the teacher is that the examination marks are a test of the pupil's proficiency. This is seldom correct. They are a test of his verbal memory and physical endurance...
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