Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enumerating the various fields of usefulness open to a chemist, one should not fail to mention the possibilities of scientific research. While in many cases the results of this work are of purely scientific or abstract interest, they are indispensable for the development of the science as a whole, and the facts and generalizations discovered in this way may have a very important bearing upon practical affairs. In this connection the recent development of biological chemistry should be mentioned, a subject which in time will surely have a strong influence on the practice of medicine. Innumerable scientific and technical problems...
...equally; some deserve it more, some less; some who should be on, are not there. The point is that all who are on deserve it. A bare two C's and a D, a fairly regular attendance at lectures, is not an exorbitant demand; and the men who fail to meet the demand, fail as a rule through indifference and not inability...
...privilege. In no theatre can one reserve seats right up to the time of the performance, and it seems to me that the same principle should apply here. As the scheme has worked out, men reserve courts and, later finding themselves unable to use them, simply fail to claim them. The vacancies remain filled according to the charts, however, and later applicants are thus prevented from reserving courts. I have also heard that there are men who abuse the privilege to the extent of signing up for courts at different hours under different names, and then using which ever court...
Thus with the Yard. What the University really wants is a Yard of all the stateliness and beauty of the days before the late elms began to fail. What it has, to supplant the lumbering scenes of the past week, are a great many ridiculous young shoots, interspersed among some more promising ones and a few saplings which have almost attained treehood. Of course there was a stateliness and beauty about the old Yard akin to the beauty of the English lawns that the gardener said required only three hundred years of care to procure. But there is a possibility...
There is an election of Union officers today which should not fail to appeal to all men who realize the importance and possibilities of the Union in the life of the University. If there is any fault in the Union as it is at present it is its failure to attract sufficient interest on the part of the undergraduates in its welfare. This fault is both the cause and the effect of its short- comings. The annual elections have been excellent evidence of this apathy; the vote in past years has usually been small and sometimes undiscriminating. This year, there...