Word: failings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third clause, prohibiting the appearance of any name on the official ballot for more than one office, had been without the alternative (placed by mistake under Clause VII), then the plan would be open to the objection pointed out in the editorial, namely, that if a prominent Senior should fail to be elected, say to a marshalship, the class would have no opportunity to give him a place lower down on the list. But if the eighteen places were divided into the two groups into which they logically fall; if, as was proposed in the alternative to Clause...
...Concert tonight in Sanders is perhaps the most available and one of the most fitting forms of public entertainment which could have been devised. There will doubtless be a large number of graduates present in addition to the visitors who will already have reached Cambridge. The affair can hardly fail, therefore, to be thoroughly successful in point of numbers, and it is hoped to make out of it a very informal and pleasant evening...
...book pretends only to amuse and it does not fail to do this. The characters are unique and the situations anything but commonplace. The last chapters are written by Mr. Quiller-Couch, after Stevenson's notes, and the stirring adventure of the balloon escape is well managed...
CRIMSON.- The following candidates have been retained for further trial: Aldred, Barker, Becker, Bell, Cheney, Davenport, Eastman, Friend, Holmes, Hammond, Locke, Nichols, Stevens, Whitney, Wellington, Wirt. These men will be in the office at 7 this evening without fail...
...against. The first is a danger that the men themselves, selected partly on their past record, and treated with a novel tenderness, shall let up in their individual efforts, and fall into fatally listless habits. The other is that the coaches, unconsciously influenced by the same radical change, shall fail to infuse enough energy into the signal practice and short line-ups. After all the real object of the change is this-to get the chance to train the same men together until they can be turned into a perfect machine. Of course then, if practice be short, it must...