Word: failed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other College buildings are due in April. By this time practically all the rooms in outside buildings have been allotted, and if the applications for Yard rooms are unsuccessful, there is but little chance of getting any but inferior lodgings. Every year many applications for the Senior dormitories fail, and in the other College buildings the applicants have to be content with other rooms than those they desired. The realization of this state of affairs by the undergraduates undoubtedly keeps a great number of them from applying at all, and prevents the Yard from being as representative as it should...
...feel that the result of these efforts is merely a matter of time. The enthusiasm aroused among the graduates by the visits of the President and his colleagues and the interest shown in their addresses by strangers cannot fail to increase the registration from the West and South to such an extent that it can no longer be said that Harvard does not represent the entire nation...
...keep the Philippine Islands without the least regard to the wishes of the natives. Out of these conditions two questions arise: first, the question of right and the possibility of success; second, the method of escape from our position, in case our present policy is sure to fail. This is the Philippine problem...
...each academic year; and many knew, long after they left the University, that he was still their friend. For Professor' Wright had, in a measure rarely granted even to lovable men, the power of awakening affection. No one who met him in the mere casual relations of life could fail to be impressed with his sincerity; while to those who were privileged to know him intimately he endeared himself in countless ways. Of the affectionate regard in which his friends held him I do not trust myself to write. He loved his fellow-men and their love was given...
...spite of the cordial terms in which the undergraduates are invited to the University teas at Phillips Brooks House, too many men who would enjoy these informal receptions if they attended, fail to respond. When Phillips Brooks House, tea, and members of the Faculty and their wives are mentioned in the same breath, signs of alarm appear. But those who have summoned up their courage and attended the teas in former years have not found them in the least formidable. On the contrary they have found an excellent opportunity to enter into sociable conversation with men whom they knew previously...