Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...open letter to the Harvard Board of Overseers--with its entertaining cartoon--deals with an engrossing topic. Everywhere increases in salaries for teachers are being talked of. Now come undergraduates to the rescue. Among the conclusions that no wise man will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said...
...especially the numerically large lower classes, are displaying a financially elusive tendency which bodes ill for final success. If the Association is to obtain the money it must have to continue its important work, a general awakening to the situation must occur. It is unthinkable that the drive should fail, hence, it is up to each one to contribute substantially and at once...
...lioness by the Charles has not lost her wit, and the young lions will not fail." The very homeliness of this characterization made by President Lowell is striking. Here for decades Harvard has nourished her sons, trained them in the lore of the past and directed them into the paths of the future. When the call came for men to defend this home, the young lions did not fail. 7,523 set behind them their personal desires. They left comforts and opportunities to face the most gigantic war which modern science could produce. They did not wait until convenience allowed...
...most of the plans and practices of the Faculty we are prepared to submit without question, recognizing their superior wisdom in matters connected with the academic life of the University. But it is always well to bear in mind that "the best will sometimes fail" and the judgment of our superiors is by no means to be accepted in every case as infallible...
...student, house him separately, force him to go to bed every night at a definite hour, develops in him no qualities of self-discipline whatever. If he won't do this as an individual out of his loyalty to his university and a sense of honor he would better fail...