Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good which can scarcely fail to arise from the forums is self-evident. They offer to all of us an opportunity to train our speaking abilities and to teach ourselves to think logically and clearly upon the questions which agitate the country or the College. Whether or not they will lead to the remarkable results which have been achieved through them in the Oxford Union will depend upon the degree of enthusiasm with which the University enters into their spirit. We shall at least expect an auspicious beginning with a topic of such lively interest...
...privilege to come into personal contact with such men, it cannot be said the students avail themselves of it to any significant extent. Whenever prominent men visit us to speak upon the political or social questions of the day, they generally attract extremely large audiences. Consequently, that we should fail to meet men so prominent in the religious sphere is indeed difficult to understand...
Every student in Harvard 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 A. M. and 6 P. M., at the places named below. All undergraduates except Seniors, and others who entered College with the class of 1913, must obtain the signatures of their Advisers on their lists of studies...
...difficulty has been increased by the intense competition of modern industrial life, where the margin of profit is very small and depends upon a close scrutiny of expenditure and revenue,--a scrutiny which the manager feels keenly, but the scattered owners and the public fail to comprehend. Corporations have enabled small property owners to co-operate in vast concerns, and have rolled up huge aggregations of capital, capable of increasing wealth and exerting power for good and harm on an unprecedented scale; but they have made those owners, in most cases, absentees, with all the evils of absentee-proprietorship...
...peculiar international aspect of the new building cannot pass unnoticed in the minds of Harvard men or any others. Bonds such as this gradually knit nations together, for as we grow from the college youth into the world man we cannot fail to remember that Germany gave us something which pleased and taught us, in return for which the least, though the best, we can give is friendship...