Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this event at the inter-collegiate games, and it was almost a foregone conclusion that he would take the cup, but the numerous entries made the contest exciting and interesting to the spectators. The bar was started at 3 ft. 6 in. Mr. Lander was the first to fail at 4 ft. 4 1-10 in. When the bar reached 4 ft. 5 1/2 in. Morison, Bachelder and Denniston failed, leaving Soren, Chamberlain and Fay. At 4 ft. 7 1-10 in. Fay dropped out, and at 4 ft. 9 8-10 in. Chamberlain failed, leaving Soren the winner...
...object of my statement is just what I have in mind as my object; otherwise my statement means nothing at all. But if the object of my statement is what I have in mind, how can my statement fail to agree with this object? i. e., how can my statement be false? That our statements are not all true implies, then, that they can have objects beyond themselves with which they can fail to agree. But how can an object that is wholly out of my thought be actually the object concerning which I am making statements? This difficulty once...
...question: "How comes it that we have so few men in Oxford who are able to lead, who attract students to the university by their reputation, and send them from the university inspired with new motives and illumined with new light?" This question in reference to Harvard cannot fail to suggest many thoughts on the various features of university life at Harvard. At first sight a Harvard student will indignantly exclaim that the question does not apply to Harvard; that we have plenty of men here who do lead and who do attract students by their reputation; who do inspire...
...each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes, with head on one side, mouth stretched from ear to ear, and arms akimbo, never fail and never can fail to elicit deafening plaudits from the house...
...study of philosophy, nevertheless, proved most interesting to those who had not the advantage of a large acquaintance with the subject. The lecturer possessed the happy faculty of putting his thoughts in a popular form while he treated the subject in a profound manner. Such lectures as this cannot fail to increase the interest taken in the study of philosophy by the students at large...