Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...believed - of students, who ask for simple, wholesome fare at low rates, can only meet with success if responded to with liberality. It is necessarily merely an experiment for the rest of this year; and if, by the neglect of those for whose benefit it was undertaken, it should fail, its failure would carry with it the failure of the association, and the probable abandonment of the whole organization. For the sake, therefore, of preserving this institution, whose full value to themselves even they would realize to their cost if it should be removed, these men should come back...
...next event was the Pole Vault, for which Chase, '83, Mandell, '84, and Field, '84, entered. The bar was started at 6 feet; all went over. The bar was gradually raised, and it seemed as if they would never fail. As the it successfully, the applause became vociferous. Mr. Wendell finally announced the height of the stick at 8 feet 10 1/2 inches. At this, Mandell failed twice, but went over the third time. At 9 feet 3/4 inches, Chase retired, failing after three trials. Field soon after withdrew. Mandell failed to go higher than this and was awarded...
Ginn, Heath & Co., of Boston, offer to undertake the publishing of the proposed college song book, if Mr. Brewer of Chicago should fail in the attempt...
...patriotic and liberty-loving class is generally-felt. Yet the rebuke implied in the following sentence from Senator Hoar's oration on Garfield, is without doubt sometimes deserved: "Beyond all," Mr. Hoar says, "Dr. Hopkins taught his pupils that lesson in which some of our colleges so sadly fail - reverence for the Republican life of which they were to form a part, and for the great history of whose glory they were inheritors...
...should fail to read the four-column article on R. H. Dana, by H. W. Muzzey, Esq., in the current number of the Cambridge Tribune...