Word: failed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...others are examples of this phase of work. The latest addition to the number is the Harvard International Law Club. Its founders intend to make it a permanent institution at Harvard. It has a distinct field to cover; with so clearly defined an object the new club can hardly fail to succeed...
...tendency of the age to revert to first principles is evident in Professor Austin's "A Bout with the Gloves." The author warns the modern boxer against ancient errors of form and cites several illustrations. Those who are inclined to take "a bout with the gloves" should not fail to read this paper, so replete with valuable instructions. The best story of the number is "Gert," a most delightful bit of fiction, whose plot is laid on the wilds of the frontier. The characters delineated are out of the ordinary run and are beyond the daily experiences of those even...
...plan of each club to hold a dinner once during the year. We suggest that this year they hold their annual dinner together. Anything which will increase the good feeling between the two academies is to be desired; and a joint dinner of their two clubs could hardly fail to accomplish this...
...ancient nations were religious, as Paul remarked in the case of the Athenians. But the Israelites pursued the theologic idea with a vigor, a persistency, and above all a rational method found in no other people. Religion was to them what philosophy was to the Greeks. This fact cannot fail to strike a scholar of both the Old Testament and the classic poets...
Questions of theology are not questions of religion but questions of philosophy; questions of organization are not questions of religion but questions of expediency. One cannot fail to discover ture religion in the writings of Wesley and Channing, though Wesley is a Methodist and Channing a Unitarian. I suppose I am a Congregationalist because I was born one, though I recognize many advantages in the Congregationalist form of organization. I admit that it is important to settle what denomination to join, but so long as a man is left free to follow the teachings of Christ, it make comparatively little...