Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constituted one of our most urgent problems; but only of late has he begun to receive the attention which he deserves. The great danger is that we will attempt to solve our problem with the same suddenness with which we discovered its existence, and that we will fail to give the proper time to reflection as to the best means to be employed...
...peace is here. The real victors have been the people's victors east of the Rhine. I grieve that the Allies have been the victors, for the triumph is so vicious in its after effects that right and justice fail. The one thing that interests me now is the social revolution east of the Rhine. I glory in the Soviet Republic of Russia and pray for the day when it shall be established in all the world...
...Club broke away from the Musical Clubs and launched its new policy of presenting "highbrow" music last fall, their project was greeted with many misgivings. It was a new departure in College music, and it was felt that such a policy would be unpopular among the undergraduates and would fail to obtain the support of the general public...
...other hand we have the "blood is thicker than water", type; persons who simply must have their tiffin, and into whose speech creeps a home-made Oxford accent whenever they talk to "those of the middle and lower classes." These are amusing and do little harm. What they fail to see is that we are no more English than we are anything else; in short, that we are Americans...
...cannot see how any student in the University, any alumnus, or any person in the country, can fail to sympathize with the CRIMSON in its stand on accuracy as shown in the editorial in the issue for January 12th. At a critical period such as this there is no quality so important as accuracy. One slight misstatement may lead to a great deal of trouble. Consequently no person should be so carefully and painstakingly accurate as the editor of a journal such as the "Nation." Unfortunately, Mr. Villard has not exhibited this quality, and still more unfortunately, Mr. Villard...