Word: failed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Further on the author inspires us with hopes of a still greater reward. He says that if we thus introduce ourselves to the notice of the young ladies in question, it cannot fail to challenge their admiration, while their gratitude may be relied on to an unlimited extent." Is the author sure that he is not promising more for our Wellesley sisters than they are prepared to accord...
...writers to newspapers, therefore, in order to cater to this feeling, from time to time regale the public with such accounts as are calculated to make us appear in the light either of fools or "roughs." The late fire in Hollis was a good subject, and they did not fail to take advantage of it; consequently a number of squibs went the rounds of the Boston papers, all tending to show the peculiar brilliancy the students here possess. It was stated that the students carefully carried down stairs every article of bedding, while they with equal care threw crockery ware...
...naive little theory of government which is developed from Utilitarianism, and pushed forward to assail open elections, would undoubtedly possess much of the popularity imputed to it if there were about it an air of greater plausibility. As it stands, it cannot fail to interest the Junior Class in their preparation for the semiannuals as an example of ambiguity of the middle term. Such an interpretation as is given to "greatest happiness" is enough to cause Bentham to turn in his grave. The position which this fallacy about government is intended to support is an entirely unwarranted assumption. It asserts...
...interest in rifle-shooting has developed here with great rapidity in the past two or three months, and the Harvard Rifle Club was formally organized some weeks ago, as we announced at the time. This club has laid out a plan of work which cannot fail, if carried out in all its particulars, to develop skilful marksmen. The club will hold at least ten matches a year, - monthly matches, at which all members of the club who have rifles can compete; spring and fall matches for teams representing the different buildings as they are divided into boat-clubs...
...fondness for real works of art is among us often misnamed affectation. A fear of ridicule often prevents us from surrounding ourselves with the forms and faces that our taste would choose. But give taste - by taste I mean good taste - fair play, and the result could not fail to be what you would wish. The monotonous athletes, sportsmen, ballet-girls, and shingles which we see to-day would vanish, and in their place would appear pictures which it is a pleasure to possess and at which it is a pleasure to look...