Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office? To be sure, it might be preferable--in the sense that they would be able to give more time to the duries if more mute inglorious Miltons were chosen instead of men of wider reputation. But the difficulty is that the voters, the Alumni, fail to elect them: they prefer to vote for--candidates whose names and activities are familiar. The committee to suggest names has frequently tried the expedient only to find that men especially picked for the job fall by the wayside because not sufficiently well known...
...Dynasty of Cain, continue if you will, but know that where men fail, God comes to the rescue, incessantly pursuing the culprits and carrying out the sentence: Accursed...
...current issue of "The Commonweal" states that "the greatest defect of the American colleges is that they teach rather than educate, and the general run of them totally fail to create a love of learning or an enthusiasm for the higher life...
...there is another element more important than all, without which there cannot be the slightest hope of a permanent peace. . . . Parchment will fail, the sword will fail, it is only the spiritual nature of man that can be triumphant. . . . We have made great contributions to the settlement of contentious differences in both Europe and Asia. But". . . we can only help those who help themselves...
...philosophers are rare in these materialistic days, it is no less true that philosophy is something at which to shy--and avoid, if possible, in mapping out college courses. In a time of intense practical activity it is observed that thought and theory fail to keep pace with the trend of events; but if history has showed this tendency in the past, that fact is no argument against an attempt to formulate a philosophy for the present. For even such practical social programs as those presented by Socialists, Liberals, and Conservatives there is but a feeble attempt at a crystallization...