Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student who had never been to Harvard before, who because of war credits of one kind or another was entering as a full-fledged sophomore or junior. Without the training in the sort of work Harvard expects on exams afforded by the freshman year, such students might well fail courses whose material they knew, but whose exam techniques they...
Loyal Martha Graham cultists usually blame themselves if they fail to understand their high priestess. Less devoted followers of the No. 1 woman of modern dance are only apt to be confused as they wander desperately through her cryptic program notes to see what she is trying to tell them. Last week, to packed houses in Manhattan, Dance-Dramatist Graham unleashed two new messages for the cultists, the confused and the curious...
Organized on the basis of last summer's results, the Food Relief Committee has aimed high. So significant a project should not be allowed to fail because of apathy or inconvenience...
Around the Filter. For a long time, Dr. Stern worried over a basic medical problem: why is it that certain medicines and serums injected into the blood stream do not get through to the brain nerve centers? Intravenous injections of anti-tetanus serum, for example, fail to check tetanus once the poison gets into the central nervous system. Dr. Stern decided that there must be a barrier (a filtering membrane), developed to protect the nerves and spinal fluid from harmful substances and most germs. She called this block the "hematoencephalic barrier...
...great. The activity of the Student Committee in this far-sighted humanitarian enterprise is a cause for pride on the part of all those in this institution. The first drive was a great success. Those who are in a position to give must see that this effort does not fail. James B. Conant