Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California Institute cannot fail to lose if it attempts to make its Houses a substitute for the fraternities. House spirit may easily develop a rivalry like that of the fraternities, which disrupt the unity of many colleges by petty bickering. Blind loyalty to a group as heterogeneous as a House cannot fail to divert attention from the cultural advantages to be derived from the House Plan...
...deep rooted honesty that forced her to provoke the final tragedy?). As Nance, ellen Crowe speaks with splendid diction; her voice is one of genuine beauty, but it slips at times into sing-song rather than melody. The other players are on a uniform level of excellence, never fail in to play their roles with sincerity and understanding, qualities rarely found in the usual "rest of the cast...
...just think of that, people who are reading?England will never fail. . . . The good God gave the British people their immortal soul of Honesty, which will always rise to the occasion...
...which are samples of the four comprehensive tests sooner or later to be given the guests. The samples cover the autumn's work but the real ones, to be answered in six hours, will be for the whole year. They will be offered in June, September, December. Those who fail may try, try again, at $5 the first repetition, $10 for every subsequent one. After these are passed, there are further tests in two of the four fields the College work covers, plus other requirements, before the College certificate is awarded...
...organized literary clubs, the Transcendental Club; with Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes. Agassiz, Dana he joined the Boston Saturday Club. He tried to introduce Whitman to his Boston friends but Lowell demurred?"a New York tough, a frequenter of low places." Finally his energies ran low; his memory began to fail, his raven hair fell out. A trip to Egypt brought him a new crop of snowy hair, but only a short span of life. At Longfellow's funeral he looked long at his friend's face in the coffin. "I cannot remember his name," he said, "but he was man." Soon...