Word: failings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other hand, within this place for public expression of personal opinion which President Lowell leaves open to the professors, he does not fail to define with all clarity the nature of the obligations which such freedom imposes upon those who would avail themselves of it. It must be used in full and unerring recognition of the responsibility attaching to them as members of a teaching faculty, and never for mere personal ends. In other words, the restraint is moral and ethical. It is because it is moral that it can neither be disregarded with impunity nor enforced by a mere...
...thing is certain: If when the world is at peace again, and intercollegiate contests are resumed, we fail to reduce the expense of coaching and training, to inculcate notions less luxurious, and to foster a better understanding of the relation between athletics and other interests of life, we shall lose one of the opportunities so dearly bought by this...
Students who fail to pay their dues at this time will be required to cease attending lectures and recitations and to forfeit all privileges as members of the University. A student in the College who is deprived of his privileges for non-payment of dues is liable for a special fee of ten dollars before resuming his standing in the University...
This feeling of recoil, even of hatred, is human enough to be easily comprehensible, but does its stimulation into a frenzy hasten or retard our war-making and is it, therefore, to be encouraged or discouraged? We fail to see how an American, by refusing to hear an orchestra play the music of Mozart or Beethoven, either spites or weakens the Kaiser or adds a bit to our fighting strength. Why not keep our energies within effective channels. --Boston Advertiser...
...both of these types the CRIMSON wishes the best of luck and reassures the undergraduate that more people pass than fail in every examination. They are a necessary evil and must be taken in a philosophic way. The hour exams, are merely a diversion invented by the faculty to break the monotony of recitations. The best way to foil these intellectual monsters is to pass their tests. Let us then make ready...