Word: failed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entries for the first winter meeting will begin to-day and close on Saturday. The committee of arrangements has taken great care to make the events this year in every way a success. We would urge all who have been in training not to fail to enter their names. It has been the experience in past year that men will train conscientiously to the last and then, for various reasons, refuse to take part in the meetings. Often, when, to all appearances, the prospect of a large number of entries was good, the meetings have barely escaped from utter failure...
...selections from Wagner are interesting as concert pieces; but we realize by how much they fail of reproducing the orchestral effects intended by the composer when we remember that the funeral march as it occurs in the opera is scored for six harps and has fifteen instruments in the wind band, and seventeen in the brass, in addition to the usual number of strings...
...increase in luxury and a decline in manly strength. What is the reason? If men take the beauty and comfort that are about them an use them to develope themselves, to increase their taste and their refinement, certainly this will not mean a poorer grade of men. However men fail to recognize that they have any responsibility as to the luxury that is theirs, if they take it simply to enjoy it, then it must of coursed diminish the necessity of energy on their part. The less calls for action a man responds to, the less strength he acquires. There...
...CREW. - Every man dressed without fail at 2.30 p. m. today sharp...
...fifth number of the Monthly, which will probably be out this afternoon, will be a Memorial number to the late Phillips Brooks. The editors may well feel proud of the work which they have done, for certainly the pleasant reminders which the various articles will make cannot fail to find a warm place in the hearts of the students. The editors have shown great wisdom, too, in having the articles written by men of different denominations, by clergy and laity, and dealing with so many different places and periods of the Bishop's life. No better test...