Word: failing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...final argument, that intercollegiate contests would promote the cause of education, if true, is certainly an admirable reason for their adoption. But that truth we fail to see. The writer has certainly proved it nowhere; he only claims it. And there is surely something weak in an argument which says because boating was made intercollegiate and flourished, that therefore education will be promoted under a system of intercollegiate literary contests...
Another point in which many publishers fail, nay, to use a plain Anglo-Saxon word, cheat, is in the binding. It ought to be a point of honor among bookmakers to put in the market books that will stand at least one perusal without coming to pieces. But such is often not the case. One New York house, in particular, seems to do no more than throw the leaves of their books together. I picked up a book in the Library today which, though quite new, already showed signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house...
...carry out this scheme a joint-stock company is forming with shares at $5 apiece. Shareholders will be entitled to the use of the cable free. All others will be charged fair rates, and no discount. It would be a pity if the plan should fail for want of money. Any one can save five dollars' worth of shoes and doctor's bills in a winter by the aid of the cable. We are not definitely informed, but it is rumored that the projectors of this enterprise...
...smoothly enough; then why try, by circulating discontented and inflammatory ideas, to create dissension and ill-feeling among the different sets in a class? We are very much obliged to all who favor us with contributions, and hope that the writers to whom we have alluded will not fail to continue to write for us, provided they will make a note of what we have said, and write on kindlier matters. The Magenta is not the "Iconoclast...
MANY warnings have failed to convince the careless student that it is no longer safe to live aperlo domo. Three years ago the burglaries were indeed few in number, but, like the murders which De Quincey has celebrated, of so artistic a character that they could not fail to command the respect of all true lovers of the aesthetic. Windows furnished the favorite mode of entrance and exit, daylight or darkness suited the interlopers, and, in one instance at least, a hand-to-hand fight settled the ownership of valuable articles of clothing. The next year we dwelt in greater...