Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compared the regulations of the various colleges given above can fail to observe that the great superiority of the Harvard system over the rest, including our own, is the fact that there is some plan about it, some attempt at a rational ordering of each student's curriculum. We talk vaguely of "laying a good foundation" and of "two years of concentrated study" and we boast that our graduates are well-rounded as well as being rather deeply learned in one direction. I say they are neither.....Intellectually I am Gilbert's "a thing of rags and patches;" my mind...
...Children. Dr. Alfred Adler, friend and old pupil of Dr. Sigmund Freud,* wrote from Vienna that the spoiled child, the unwanted or illegitimate child and the child of imperfect physique are in danger of developing a feeling of inferiority to the rest of the world. They fail "to develop a social feeling. Social feeling is what enables human beings to survive in this world†. . . . We can now understand why all actions on the useless side of life among problem children, neurotics, criminals, suicides, perverts and prostitutes are caused by a lack in social feeling, courage and self-confidence...
...have not been as coherent as usual. They seem to tell me to look for five touchdowns or more in the Stadium today, but they don't say who will make them. I am a loyal Harvard man--big enough to overlook the few times that Coach Horween has failed to follow my suggestions to the letter--he's usually been sorry afterward--so I hope that three of those five touchdowns will be made by the Crimson-jerseyed hosts. I should like to see the score Harvard 20, Dartmouth 14, I suggested as much to the stars, but they...
...attends the current production of "Everyman" at the Fine Arts Theatre, can fail to be impressed by the sincerity of its presentation. It is a difficult feat to put on a Fifteenth Century miracle play and achieve any suggestion of the effect which it must have had upon the audiences for which it was intended. In producing this effect, the reviewer believes, Miss Wycherly and her company have attained a surprising success...
...addition, there are the innumerable organ renditions, traveloques and what nots which never fail to obscure the Metropolitan's main presentation and annoy the audience with their infinite variety. However, this week the entertainment is as balanced and stimulating as even the most critical would expect