Word: failings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Nothing in your editorial makes your comments on waiting in Memorial Hall fail of equal application to waiting in any other college dining hall...
...very sure that no member of Foxcroft Club, whether a waiter or not, has read your editorial without feeling much hurt, and to a considerable degree insulted. I trust that no Harvard man can fail to recognize in your sentiments an expression of disloyalty to his college...
During the warm weather those who take their meals at Memorial Hall are likely at times to get food which is not entirely palatable to them. I hope any such will not fail to notify me by complaints put in the box for that purpose in the hall. I do not very often give personal answers to the complaints but invariably look into the merits of all communications addressed to me. I should like also to remind everybody that the best way to obtain better food, is to send back that which is objectionable, with a brief note...
...shall now discuss the qualities of genius and art. It is common for genius to look with contempt upon art. This should not be so. If you discard art you are sure to fail. Many geniuses have been forgotten because they have failed to observe art. Genius produces, art reproduces. In acting reproduction is the most important. Night after night a part must be played and give the same effect every time. If the actor grows weary, he produces a weary audience. Mr. Macready, the famous actor, once said to Mrs. Warner that one of his great speeches, which used...
Many young actors fail without understanding why. They complain that they play their best roles and no one comes. The fault is not with the roles, but with themselves. The tones of the actor's voice and his manner must convey to the audience a clear understanding of the lines...