Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material gathered to illustrate this thesis is of no mean quality. On the title page the editors confess their mission. The illustrations and text bear out the promise. One who has passed through the experience of an examination in the New Lecture Hall cannot fail to get a quiver or two out of the cartoon The Retreat from Moscow. To most readers of the Lampoon this will be the appeal to strike him most strongly. A modest Proposal after the pattern of Swift is very amusing. It is enlivened with sketches portraying the dismal fate of the Harvard Undergraduate...
...work, which is to start next autumn, will be under the joint direction of the Hall executors and the faculties of the two universities. This equitable distribution of supervision cannot fail to promote an exchange of scholars and students profitable to East and West; Chinese culture will be studied through the direct medium of the Chinese tongue, and the American methods of research will in a similar manner be transmuted to Peking...
...over the incubus of the proposed chapel or the Yale-Harvard scoreboard is as actual as any greybeard or official waistcoat in the yard. He is a loveable, tragic figure, walking hither and yon, like the inevitable canine, on the heels of a great idea. That his idea may fail to take tangible form bears little weight; for in the unending pursuit, he has produced some very pleasant by-play...
That the chances for inspirational contact in the English Department at Harvard are less than elsewhere is open to grave question; that the student who is really interested in and adapted to the study of English Literature will fail to browse by himself regardless of divisional or an overemphasis on the historical, side of literature is untenable. For the rest, those who are no more fitted to the study of English than of any other college subject, those who have picked English because they could not make up their minds what they wanted to study, or those who would rather...
...direction, no time to arouse in them a taste for beauty, or to show that the cultivation of critical standards may help each one to find in his reading something that may always give pleasure. Were he to spend time for these things his students would probably fail in the examinations, and in consequence he would be a poor tutor in the light of present Harvard requirements...