Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hoped that an intercollegiate tennis tournament may be arranged before the close of the season, as a series of matches in a game so universally popular could not fail to prove of great interest to all collegians...
...remarks of our valued cotemporary in regard to our defence of the New Shakspere Society are both facetious and irrelevant. We fail to see what the Aristotelian ???, or a Chinese pick-pocket, or the Royal Asiatic Society has to do with the subject in hand. Nor should our valued cotemporary complain of "athletic tabular views and ornithological ghost-stories," so long as they furnish a text for its widely famed humorous pieces. And when, as a parting thrust, it playfully insinuates that the Crimson is beyond its depth in speaking of matters Shaksperian, it is guilty of a degree...
...Philosophical Club is to be congratulated for its happy choice of lecturers in the course given under its auspices this winter. The last of the course, on the Philosophy of Carlyle, should not fail to draw out a large audience, in view of the recent death of the great apostle of sincerity. A public meeting to honor his memory has been suggested, but, whether that meeting takes place or not, Mr. Mead's lecture offers a good opportunity of paying a fitting tribute to the memory of one whose writings no young man can read without profit. We must also...
...told I did not fail...
THERE are many societies in College, and the janitors - who are never known to fail in any thing except their work - have determined to add another to the list. The society which they intend to form has for its object not the pursuit of knowledge, but simply pleasure. The janitors and goodies expect to give a ball every year. They feel that they are overworked in taking care of students' rooms, and that they must have some relaxation to bring back their health, shattered by almost constant application of the broom and duster. There is another reason, too, which prompts...