Word: failed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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CRICKET.- Practice game at 4 o'clock. The following men will come out with out fail: Griswold, Wells, Parker, MacVeagh Quinby, Henry, Shope. Other men as usual...
...Government ownership must fail because:- (a) It would make railroads the subjects of political schemes. Hadley, ch. XIII; Hudson, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question, 18.- (b) Private enterprise would be lessened, -(c) It has failed in countries where circumstances were more favorable than in the United States. Hadley, 214, 217, 228, 246; Nation...
...details of the plan have not yet been altogether completed; yet in even those which are published one cannot fail to note the extreme working practicability of the plans. One feature, it will be seen, is to have eminent and successful instructors show as far as possible exactly how they have accomplished their purposes. Another feature is to make a personal study of the practical operations of the excellent schools in Cambridge, Boston and vicinity...
...Corb in's tale of the "Wide-eyed Moose on the Thunderbolt" is excellently told. The surprise is carefully treasured up till the end, and the reader who has followed the boasting hunters' fortunes can hardly fail to laugh aloud at their final discomfiture...
...Harvard sportsmen and followers of Izaak Walton will find a most readable article in the May Century on "Game-fishes of the Florida Reef." There are many college men who make annual uniting and fishing excursions South, and these cannot fail to find much valuable information in this most excellent article. A graphic description is given of the different gamefish of the southern reef and the various ways of landing them, and there are interspersed many piscatorial anecdotes which add a zest to the whole...