Word: fails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Program for Harvard College will not fail to reach its $82.5 million goal," Laurence O. Pratt '26, public relations director of the drive, asserted yesterday. If the Program, directed by H. Irving Pratt '26, is to meet its June deadline, $27.5 million must be raised in four months...
Although student-led seminars are open to endless cracks about "group dynamics," any device which encourages the student to forget his teacher as a grader is valuable. In courses and on field examinations only three grades will be given: "fail, satisfactory, distinction." There will be no pluses and minuses, no hallowed Rank List...
...find it hard to inspire the style of life" which could make the College a great place to learn. It is easy to imagine students paying lip service to "intellectual excitement" while actually looking on New College as an institutionalized gut. Student seminars tend to bog down if students fail to do thoroughly the reading required for vital discussion...
...sulks, or at best indifference. Her heart bleeds, but she is wise enough to understand that in hurting his mother he is only trying to end his dependence on her; that the pain he inflicts on her is a measure of the fear he feels that he may fail to become a man. At every point the relationship between mother and growing boy is exactly understood and poignantly expressed. Because of her great love and understanding, she does not tell her son that she is ill and that if she gives him money to go to college, she cannot afford...
...Normal" Inflation. In arguments, most speechmakers fail to distinguish between runaway inflation of the sort that swept Germany after World War II, and that now has Chile and Bolivia in its grip, and the so-called "normal" inflation of 1% or 2% a year that has usually accompanied times of prosperity. Nobody wants runaway inflation. But many economists believe that the U.S. economy cannot grow and prosper without some measure of "normal" inflation...