Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same impression that one so often gets from Harvard papers: here are a lot of clever young men who have read a good deal and know how to write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole...
...make this petition in the belief that the principles here involved are so fundamental to civilization that neutral nations cannot with either honor or safety fail to make their position immediately and unmistakably known...
...Mechanics Building tonight. Articles of every description will be on sale--and there will always be a fair exchange for your money. The elaborate exhibition of war relics and the reproduction of a British trench, arranged by Captain Thwaites, to say nothing of the trench-climbing "tank," cannot fail to interest. There will also be chances to contribute to individual charities in which you may be personally interested...
...dare you, whether you win or fail...
...order to prevent abuse of this privilege, the discharges will be sent by the Adjutant-General of the State to the professor of military science and tactics at the institution, to be delivered to the students concerned when they enroll in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Should such students fail to enroll as indicated, the discharges will be returned to the Adjutant-General of the State for cancellation...