Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important educational problem, this question cannot fail to interest us. Is it a pleasant outlook when pretty falsehoods--just because they are pretty--must be fed to minds not yet trained to sift out truth? The impressions received in childhood are difficult to eradicate; truth, when it does force its way through a barrier of early prejudice brings with it all the attendant dangers of disillusionment. Furthermore, an enduring faith in one's country is founded not on ignorance of its shortcomings but on an appreciation of the counterbalancing merits. The sconer this is recognized in our elementary history classes...
...best plays of the season, both from the acting and the entertaining stand-points. Especially pleasing was the work of Mr. Joy as the Bishop of Chelsea: we hope that his versatility will be given full scope this season. Mr. Clive can always be counted upon and did not fail this time. Miss Doyle handled an "emotional" part with praiseworthy firmness, resisting all temptation to rant. The rest of the cast were equally satisfactory. We hope that "Getting Married" will continue to run for more than a week, for we should like to see it again...
Every student in the College must hand in, without fail, his list of studies, written in ink on the card provided for the purpose, today between the hours of nine o'clock and six o'clock at Harvard 1. All undergraduates must obtain the signatures of their advisors...
...that Guatemala has decided to abandon the use of subsidiary coins made of hard rubber, and is to adopt coins of German manufacture which are to be made of porcelain. No longer can the spendthrift Guatemalan carelessly toss his extra pesos to the street urchins, knowing that if they fail to catch them on the fly they will get them on the rebound; now, alas, the coins upon striking the paving will be shattered into a thousand pleces, valueless as a means of exchange and effective only in puncturing automobile tires...
...turns out to be a tale of married life, concerned chiefly with the doings of the husband and wife in a society gambling house. "Home Stuff" is an unsatisfactory attempt to make a comedy out of the "Way Down East" type of melodrama, in which Viola Dana's eyes fail to be effective...