Word: failing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the time comes, if the time should come, of just war Harvard will not fail. Until that time we must counsel how most wisely and most calmly we may prepare, and bring our counsels to fruition...
...part in the war," who was permitted to speak in Sanders Theatre on December 11, 1916 (the meeting open to the public, tickets one dollar, the proceeds to go to the Cambridge Surgical Dressings Committee). My sympathies in the war happen to be with the Allies, yet I fail to see how Ian Hay is less a propagandist than Mrs. Skeffington. Of course, the truth is, they are both propagandists; and Harvard students were fortunate in having the chance to hear both...
...esteemed an honor to be prized, and the influence of which in many instances is highly beneficial. But the trouble is that these clubs tend to take a place of overshadowing importance in the student mind, and that in the nature of the situation many worthy men must fail of election to them. The problem is not merely a student problem. It is the expression of an inherent human tendency. Maroon a hundred persons on a Pacific island and in a fortnight they will split into two or three groups. The English universities have a college system, and the world...
...editing a college year book knows only too well the paramount difficulty of getting men to have their pictures taken and to send in the illustrious histories of their lives. This year's photograph committee intend to have the Senior Album published by May first, and if they fail it will be on account of the carelessness of the members of 1917. Twenty minutes is long enough for any man to rid himself of all obligations, and immediate responses to the letters sent out last week will be a great help to the committee and will mean a better edited...
...hope that they who leave us will find their service appreciated and their sacrifice rewarded. Let us hope that their idealistic dreams may not be shattered. They are loyal sons of their University and their nation. With such material to draw from, America cannot fail, however or whenever her hour of danger may come...