Word: failed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club, and if little difficulty is met with in selecting the men for the crew, and if Harvard will agree to row a race, the club will buy a shell. There are several college oarsmen in the Athletic Club and an eight selected from their number could hardly fail to be a strong one after suitable training...
...good effect on the schools themselves will be immeasurable. The Harvard men who have offered these cups have done it for the best interests of both their college and the preparatory schools. We hope that the schools will not fail to recognize this fact, and will leave nothing undone which will contribute to the success of the new association...
...themselves to their utmost, in view of a possible appointment to a professorship at Washington. But great as the benefits would be to the cause of learning, the greatest benefit of all would be felt by the country at large, for the atmosphere of a great university could not fail to have a beneficial effect on the law-givers of the nation...
...partial measures of government regulation are bound to fail.- Hadley...
...keep up the interest in the matches, and to obviate the necessity of closing matches on account of the lack of entries, as was done last week. To repeat what we said a few days ago "no matter how good a shot a man may be, practice cannot fail to improve his work," and above all it is important to have practice in matches. The strong team is that which is made up of men in no danger of becoming nervous, and who in critical moments can be depended on to shoot fully up their average. To become such...