Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...electrical or telegraph engineering. This profession being the latest one, has not yet become over-crowded. Great fortunes have been made in Europe and this country in this new profession. Many think we have too many clergymen, lawyers and doctors, and ninety-five per cent, of the business men fail. There are two places in England and one place in America where this new profession is taught. If any of your younger readers are interested I should be pleased to give them any information in my power...
...life. We find the meeting-room hung with trophies, and photographs of noted athletes, all of which represent out-door events, and victories on land and water. Our winter meetings in the gymnasium are popular and profitable, and often represent a deal of athletic practice and training, but we fail to find any pictorial or tablet records of them, except in one or two cases. All the events peculiar to in-door athletics, which have been so interesting and important a feature annually, under the auspices of the Athletic Association, seem to be almost entirely neglected in its records...
...poetic passages in English literature are met with, we should naturally expect some attempt at elocution, or, at least, some interest in trying to read well. But the fact is that nowhere is heard such dismal exhibitions in elocution, and even the recurrence of the finest passages seems to fail to relieve the prosiness of delivery. It would be of considerable advantage to the interest of the course if some means could be taken, during this second half-year, to improve the standard of the reading and not allow the many fine selections to be so mutilated in their delivery...
...loved as a brother. And bear this in mind my dear boy: The more you are abused the more welcome you will be. For I remember how kind your country was to me, and at your age I had not done one-tenth your work. May my right hand fail me when I forget this. But don't you lose heart or come to dislike America, for, whatever is said or done, the real heart of this strong young world demands and will have fair play for all. This sentiment is deep and substantial, and will show itself when appealed...
...last number of Harper's Weekly takes up the question of "practical joking" by collegians, and discusses it in a reasonable if not in an original manner. But we have to make the same objection that we made once before - the newspapers fail to make distinctions; and when Harper's Weekly classes the innocent extravaganza of the Harvard freshmen at Boston Music Hall in the same class with the recent kidnapping and hazing affairs at other colleges - then we claim that it shows lack of discrimination and of fairness. We entirely agree with that journal, however, when it says, "There...