Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leading colleges of this country, that no such harmful results would follow the employment of a professional base-ball coach as has been predicted by many persons who take but little interest in athletics. The arguments advanced in behalf of the granted petition cannot, after a careful perusal, fail to be conclusive. In a letter received from Professor Richards, of Yale, a man who has always taken a deep interest in athletics and who thoroughly understands the objections to "professionalism," we find the words: "I see no harm in the Nine playing with professional nines...
...every way. Coming as they did at five o'clock in the afternoon-a convenient hour-they were pleasant and attractive as well as instructive. The music was good and the little informal talks by one of the preachers to the University were very interesting. These services cannot fail to do good and that alone is a sufficient warrant for their continuance...
...last of Professor Toy's entertaining and interesting lectures on Moslem Civilization will be delivered this evening at 7.30 in Upper Boylston. The subject will be "The Present Outlook in the Moslem World." The lecture cannot fail to be instructive as Professor Toy is one of the men in this country most able to deal with his question. The subject itself, also, is particularly attractive, calling, as it does, for a discussion of the spirit of the nineteenth century in its effects upon the East...
...second of Prof. Toy's course of four lectures on Moslem Civilization, occurs this evening in Upper Boylston. To those who are at all interested in the basis of our own civilization these lectures cannot fail to be attractive. Not only is the subject a most interesting and instructive one, but the able and pleasing manner in which Prof. Toy lays his subject before his hearers is a charm in itself, and an opportunity of hearing him, so seldom offered us, should be taken advantage...
...board of overseers at their last meeting requested the committee on government to "consider and report promplly on the advisability of making attendance upon recitations and lectures compulsory." This action shows plainly that either the overseers fail to understand the way in which attendance at recitations is regulated by the present system, or else labor under the delusion that in such a rule as they propose lies the only way of making students appear regularly at recitations. In the first place, at the present time the instructor is the judge as to whether or not a student comes to recitations...