Word: failing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have not seen much of the world, - I use this phrase in its literal sense, - a good photograph of a picture which has meaning will impress that meaning upon you. The sublime figures which the old artists of Italy have left behind them cannot fail to arouse wondering thoughts of the minds which could conceive such forms, and of the thought which must have brought them into being. The splendid limbs of the marble relics of the ancients will carry you back to the days when men saw such limbs at every turn. The striking realism of the French pictures...
...haste, and that the veriest school-boy might detect at his leisure. But all the time, while piloting Mr. Allen with great skill, as he thinks, into Charybdis, he has not noticed Scylla picking off some of his choicest recruits. Or, to speak in a way he cannot fail to understand, he has himself made various blunders, quite enough to relieve Mr. Allen, or any other experienced teacher and scholar, from caring a whit for what he says. Our space will only allow us to mention two. Mr. Allen has translated "standing on one foot" by stantem uno in pede...
...college, and the members bound together; otherwise, if the subject is not proposed until after graduation, when the class has separated, the expense of a window will fall upon a comparatively small number, and there will probably be a large number who, through ignorance of the project, will fail to contribute what they otherwise would have had they been requested to do so while in college. Also students, as a rule, are better able to subscribe while in college than they are for several years after graduation; and if a call for money to aid an object of this kind...
...Advocate, the insidious and baleful influence of the New York Nation was alleged to account for the so-called trait of Harvard indifference." This twofold challenge to the student and the Nation appeals to a state of things in College and to an iconoclastic tendency in the Nation which fail to reveal themselves, I think, to the observer who is conversant in any true sense with the phenomena in question...
...critical in its spirit. It is the tribunal before which the folly, incompetence, and crime that are enacting around us are to be summoned. I have somewhere heard of an enthusiast who started a paper to record the good deeds of men. It is said to have failed from want of news. But I conceive that it must have failed from other reasons. The good deeds of life are ordinarily to be taken for granted, and if of an extraordinary nature, become the basis of poetry or serve to illustrate a moral code. The positive method is the method...