Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fraser's lines, In the Night, although not always smooth and musical, show much purity and simplicity, and their genuineness more than atones for any lack of polish. Mr. F. S. Palmer's verses in his Ode to Herrick, are more musical and better tuned. They cannot fail to stir a genuine lover of Herrick. Mr. A. B. Houghton's Ballad of Pleasure Seekers, though far above the average of college verse, is not, we think, quite up to the standard of his former work, in spite of a number of lines more than ordinarily good. It is likely that...
...eyes and hold men's hearts. Not one of us, therefore, who, if he be true and pure and natural, may not, though his life never should be written, be interesting and stimulating to his fellow men in some small circle as they touch his life." Who can fail to feel the truth of those few simple words and the encouragement they give us all, and especially the young, who are just beginning the battle of life to be "true" and "pure," to be themselves manly men, and so help their class-fellows and comrades to be the same...
...involve discussion, that the range of possible and interesting discourses is almost unlimited. We are aware that mention has already been made of this matter, but we are sorry to see that little interest has been excited. A course of philosophical lectures representing various schools of thought, could not fail to interest the students and arouse additional interest in the philosophical department. We sincerely trust that the subject will receive the consideration of the Philosophical Club and that arrangements can be made for a short series of lectures this spring...
...large a number of resolute, able men, well educated, and fitted in every way to be the leaders of a great popular movement, must be regarded as a powerful and significant factor in the tremendous problems of social life, and the opinions and character of these students can not fail to be of great interest to all who sympathize with the oppressed and down-trodden of the earth...
...student will also hear with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow of the man who has made his mark in the world, and of the man who has been forced to abandon the profession and step down into the lower rank of a merchant. All these statements cannot fail to impress themselves upon the student's mind; he will carry the thoughts of the speaker home with him and will endeavor, as far as he sees fit, to heed his advice. And so it is in all the other lectures the student attends. They are all composed of the element...