Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...waste our youth in a training which we pray never to have to use, when we might be spending it in learning and spreading lessons of peace. Then, when the time comes for us to talk to the world of plans for perpetual peace, if we fail to accomplish our high aims, at least we shall have given ourselves every opportunity for success. And then, if we do fail, while Europe is rearing new sons to fight her coming battles, there will be time enough for us to prepare to defend ourselves against them. J. GARFIELD...
...CRIMSON does not wish to excite needless alarm, but it is obvious that Sever at present is unsafe. There is no doubt that it will shortly be equipped adequately and will be made safe, for the University cannot fail to see the need of immediate action...
...reading of the plays for the spring production of the Dramatic Club will be held in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. All candidates for parts in the plays should report without fail...
...most important subject under the general head of market distribution is the retail business. Each year many inexperienced men become retailers, and each year many in experienced men become retailers, and each year thousands of these retailers fail. The business of store-keeping is so commonplace that people do not hesitate to embark in it and they are highly surprised if they fail. "To sell a pound of nails or a package of coffee," says Mr. Copeland, "appears so simple that the problems of buying, selling, stock-handling, accounting and managing are over-looked. The general public, on its side...
...which bosses him like a brute." Thus in a few words is stated the be-all and end-all of the disciplinarian's creed. It was something of this dogma which stood behind Dean Randall's remarkably outspoken address made recently to the alumni of Brown University. "Where Colleges Fail to Educate" was the subject which he chose, and it gave him a dozen opportunities to point the failures of our educational system. "Colleges lay too little stress upon punctuality and thoroughness in the performance of required work"; "young men should be subjected to a much more thorough and comprehensive...