Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...disadvantage to the writer--would, in later life, lose many a man his job. When an instructor runs through a pile of blue-books or a number of weekly themes, their neatness may not receive official notice, yet no matter what the content may be, orderly writing cannot fail to make a favorable impression--with a consequent and deserved increment in grade...
...best known of all, the "Portrait of Thomas Howard," by Rubens. Botticelli, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Giorgione and Cellini, are among the Italians represented, and there is a splendid group of canvasses by Rembrandt. This opportunity is one of which students who wish to broaden their interests should not fail to take advantage. One seldom is able to see in America so many objects of artistic value and historical interest of every description as crowd the rooms of this most remarkable of American residences...
...have had some doubt as to the College authorities' active efforts towards the establishing of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps units at Harvard cannot fail to be reassured after reading President Lowell's communication in today's issue. The entire question is a delicate one to solve, for the War Department in the past has only directed military training in Land Grant Colleges and the system of the new training units is the first attempt to standardize the instruction in independent institutions...
...expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place her in the ranks of those who fail to recognize, calling it theatrical, that most holy thing, austerity...
...decorative perfection. The Flemings care more for reality and are at their best when they get away from the conventional religious subjects; in their backgrounds, their portraits, their attention to detail, Flemish art is admittedly the best in Europe from 1400 to 1550, and no one should fail to see this unusual exhibition before the 29th of November, when it closes...