Word: failings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cannot fail to appreciate the hospitaiity extended to foreigners there, nor fail to observe the same good fellowship among students which prevails in American colleges. There is the same genius of intellectual life, and much the same of athletic spirit. The French, German or English student is a lover of out-door life...
...accomplishment cannot fail to add much honor and glory to the zeal which American students are showing in the matter. Many of the leading colleges in the country have contributed generously through their undergraduates, and the committee hope that Harvard will not be outdone by the other institutions of learning either in the heartiness or generosity of her subscriptions...
Members of this committee and of the Classical club committee will canvass the college for subscriptions and any member of the committees will gladly receive the contributions of any man whom they may fail to approach...
...granted it would have to be solely to create a class of vesels available for war; a subsidy solely for this purpose would be indefensible. (a) It would be extravagant-Our Merchant Marine, 140; Garfield's view Congress. Globe 1869 70 part 5, pp. 3785-6. (b) It would fail to supply our naval needs-Wells, Our Merchant Marine...
...stock holders but the actual money received did not amount to much. The stockholders of western roads have little by little grown to be eastern men, and thus it is that stockholders and the actual running and controlling powers have separated-a state of affairs which cannot fail to be disastrous. The bond holders are the real owners of western railroads...