Word: fails
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there will be no later opportunity, we remind members of the University today of the memorial service which will be held tomorrow morning in Sanders Theatre. The services would fail in their purpose if they should be neglected by students. To join in them will be a simple and befitting...
...VARSITY GLEE CLUB.- Rehearsal this evening at 6.30 instead of 4.30. Every man must know the words of the German song without fail...
CHARLES L. SAFFORD, Leader.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB.- Gould, Pierce, Lawton, and Heckscher, must go to Wellington in the 1.45 train today without fail, for team practice...
When one reads what has been written about Wordsworth, one cannot fail to be struck by the predominance of the personal equation in the estimate of his value, and when we consider his claim to universal recognition, it would not be wise to overlook the rare quality of the minds that he has most attracted and influenced. If the character of the constituency may be taken as the measure of the representative, there can be no doubt that, by his privilege of interesting the highest and purest order of intellect, Wordsworth must be set apart from the other poets...
...invention of music, then for the application of its laws to language, and, that done, of what subjects would the poets avail themselves? There would be love and war, or, if no deeds worth celebrating offered themselves (unhappily Horace's saying is sometimes reversed, and heroic men as often fail to the bard as the bard to them), there would only be love. I merely put the case as a comment on the assertion we sometimes hear that if we have no poetry it is the fault of the poets, since the material always abundantly exists in human nature. Undoubtedly...