Word: failed
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Applications for tickets to the Yale game close on November 4. All those desiring tickets for the game must without fail have their applications in before that date. Extensions of time will in no case be granted...
While the present system obtains, we fail to find any incentive for casting a vote in the class elections. There is no platform; there are no issues to be decided. Personal preference, then, is the sole reason for forming a decision; and when that does not exist, as it generally does not, the inducement for casting a vote disappears...
...students to cast their ballots. It frequently means five minutes trouble,--time which they may perhaps more pleasantly spend in berating the conditions which give them no hand in the administration of college activities. As it seems conclusively shown, however, that the more active members of the classes never fail to find time to vote, and, being human, invariably vote for their friends, the sole method of getting out of the rut into which college polls have fallen is to continue the present more or less compulsory participation in the elections...
...that failure Mr. Hoover speaks with an intimate knowledge and a lack of partisan heat that cannot fail to persuade. His review is detailed and overwhelming and points a moral for the future that is inescapable. The failure of Democratic leadership--"disintegration," Mr. Hoover well calls the present status of Mr. Wilson's Administration--necessitates that "the responsibilities of government be transferred." That is the single issue of the campaign in the Tribune's view, and Mr. Hoover has done a service to the country in stating the facts with such inevitable logic...
...duty: We all wish to facilitate the establishment of world peace and understanding. Therefore we should not fail to seize every opportunity to gain the point of view of other peoples. The foreign student has come here to gain friends. We are under obligation to help him out. Let us meet the foreign student at Harvard; let us make him feel our friendliness for him, and then reap the benefits which are to be derived from acquaintance with...