Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Caps and gowns should be worn without fail this morning and all day Class Day. CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...work. This is unfortunate and is largely so because it is not members of the University with whom those engaged in charity work are most nearly concerned. The efforts of students in this direction do, however, accomplish great good in Cambridge and various parts of Boston. Such work cannot fail, moreover, to have its effect in augmenting the dignity and favor which the University commands among people who can do much to annoy and disturb the undergraduates at all hours of the day and night...
...would not be fair to make too serious generalizations from a book of selections of this sort; but one can hardly fail to notice the difference in flavor as the collection goes on. The earlier verses have in general a more scholastic quality and a higher general average of literary quality; the work of more recent years is marked by a greater freedom from conventional modes, and so has a stronger flavor of conviction. The contrast between the two poems by Mr. Houghton which open the book and the "Road Song" of Langdon Warner, or Mr. Wheelock's "Sunday Evening...
...other colleges. The Union supplies the undergraduates with a common meeting place, and its reading rooms supplant the usual function of the religious society's library. No glamor is attached to the work carried on in Brooks House, as is the case elsewhere, so that many fail to notice its existence. Although its activities are many and varied, they are in the main connected with social service work outside of the University, upon which branch of its administration it is to be congratulated. The excellent text-book loan library, which is largely patronized by the students...
...those who knew Dean Ames any writing concerning him is superfluous. For those who never had the privilege of his acquaintance or instruction, such tribute as the present number of the Review contains cannot fail to be of the utmost interest and value. All will highly prize the issue for its articles on "James Barr Ames," by President Eliot, president of the Law School during the 36 years of service of the late dean; "His Life and Character," by Professor J. H. Beale '82, a colleague; "His Services to Legal Education," by Professor S. Williston '82, a colleague...