Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic", under the title of "The Iron Man", proposes a very plausible solution to the problem. Briefly, the author's idea is this: unless these young men are taught to use their leisure properly, they are dangerous to society. Educate them, then, for leisure. At present the elementary schools fail to do this. They educate, rather, for work. They make but slight attempt to impart to their students a love of art, literature, or music or a knowledge of science, philosophy or economics. The author urges, therefore, that many subjects hitherto known as "college subjects" be taught in the elementary...
...Hall. Each candidate will be required to give a five-minute speech on the negative and affirmative sides of the subject. "Resolved, that the Eighteenth Amendment should be repeated". The successful candidates will make a trip to New London, Conn., to meet the local high school later in the fail...
...Randelph Gymnasium are intended to fulfill is, under the present system--or lack of it--entirely unfulfilled. That function is to offer to students who have but little time to spare from their studies an opportunity to get a certain necessary amount of regular exercise; and the reason they fail to do this is that the usual system of signing up for courts has been neglected. There is no patent reason for such neglect; and there is a patent reason why the sign-up system should be put in force...
...first lover turns out to be a house-breaker and she is convicted wrongly with him. She breaks her parole, marries Mr. Lake who is a crook hater,--without telling him the sad past. Obviously this is the best way to court an embarrassing future. It does not fail; she is arrested in New York after ten years have gone by Her husband is directing his energies at the time to prosecuting a poor youth gone wrong, although his associates, as his wife had long done, pleaded for clemency. The combination of prosecuting the unlucky youth and defending his wife...
...Advocate has an opportunity to make itself such a nucleus of literary activity. Its first number is a good average number, but later issues ought to be better. They could hardly fail to be better if the Advocate attracted to itself all the literary originality that must be lying around loose in Cambridge looking for a chance to express itself. I hope the advocate's call for candidates will be answered by every able undergraduate who is genuinely interested in writing. If it is, we may possibly see the development of a group of college writers who will make...