Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be well for contestants to remember that changes in the order may be necessary, if any of the men fail to appear. The meeting will begin promptly at 2 P. M. The doors will be opened...
reading the summary of the report, one's attention cannot fail to be attracted by the portion devoted to the description of the proposed alterations in Gore Hall. After the long years during which our students have been compelled to content themselves with the antiquated reading-room accommodations afforded by our library, it is pleasant, to say the least, to learn that any improvement has even been thought of by the authorities. The suggestion of providing suitable accommodations for those students who are not resident at the university is a valuable one. Such provision for "day students," would, in effect...
...Sever 11. The name of Prof. Paine is of itself a sufficient guarantee that these concerts will be of a high order, and well worth attending. Illustrating the progress and historical aspect of music by means of concerts, is something quite novel, at least in Cambridge, and cannot fail to draw a considerable audience from the lovers of the art, both those in college, and the many cultivated people who make up a large part of this university town. If this experimental course meets with favor, then musical people may hope for its continuance in the future...
...Lampoon has sent around postal cards asking students to subscribe for the second half year. All that is necessary to do is to sign one's name to the card and drop it in the post. Surely this is but little trouble, and no one ought to fail to aid the paper in helping to gain the required 200 subscriptions...
...deficiencies in other respects. Many a man in the good old times has gone up, relying mainly on his classics to pull him through, and has been eventually pulled through in this way, though, perhaps, in rather a battered state. Classics, however, are now abolished entirely, and this cannot fail to have an important influence on the system of education pursued at the public schools, and must eventually exercise a diminishing effect on the number of university candidates. The importance of Classics as a branch of education has long been disputed with considerable ardour and ferocity; but there...