Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every student in College must hand in without fail his list of studies written in ink on the card provided for the purpose today, between the hours of 9 and 6 o'clock, at the places named below. All undergraduates must obtain the signatures of their advisers on their lists of studies...
...mind of the lover of the autumn game. There is but one answer: of course Harvard will have a strong eleven. It's a moral certainty. And the reason may be given in two words, "fundamental football." No team well versed in the rudiments of play can fail to be a formidable outfit. It would be better with strategic finesse, with a complement of supermen, with an assortment of intricate plays well learned as additions to the basic structure; none the less the team that can tackle, block, work together as a machine, and hold the ball will make trouble...
...such a movement could only be temporary; that as soon as the excitement had passed, the military training corps in the colleges and universities would cease to hold their student volunteers. We had ourselves tried the experiment at the opening of the war against Spain and had seen it fail as soon as the first flush of excitement was over. We knew that many other colleges and universities had had similar experiences...
...Even if one makes one's fatherland monarch of conscience and dictator of action, surely it must be revolting to go killing the enemy when you think he is right. Though all sensible people, as General Wood said, desire peaceful settlement of troubles, yet honest attempts have failed and may fail again. And therefore Plattsburg, the naval cruise, and Harvard's Preparedness Week (with its large bouquets of "easy conscience...
...college year and the conclusion of all courses, except for the final examinations, it is customary for men to look back over the year's work in order to take account of their intellectual stock. In the majority of cases the results fail to fulfill their earlier resolutions and expectations. Some have accumulated a store of facts which will be promptly forgotten after the examinations, while a few have been able to understand the relative purpose of a particular course and to obtain a little permanent enlightenment...