Word: failed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...each case it had been necessary to omit from the final list of ushers the names of many men who had signed the blue-book at the last moment. It seems unfair that these men who desire to usher should be kept from doing so by the men who fail to show up at the proper time on days of games. Another important point is that this loss of ushers assigned to definite sections causes considerable delay in people getting to their seats. The crowd on Saturday will be the largest of the season, and consequently the most difficult...
When in 1901 the Union was formally presented to the University an address was delivered that ought to be read by every man who enters the building. It is full of a magnanimous spirit of generosity and devotion to Harvard, and cannot fail to arouse in anyone who reads it the feeling that his highest privilege as a member of the University is to give something to that University. And yet there are those who, ignorant or forgetful of this dedicatory address, even in the very building that is a monument to generosity and devotion are endeavoring to get something...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, professor emeritus in the University, is dying at his home on Shady Hill. Last Saturday evening he began to fail rapidly, and his death is now only a matter of a few hours. Dr. E. H. Stevens of Cambridge, who is in constant attendance, announced early this morning that Professor Norton was sinking rapidly, and that the end might be expected at any time. Mr. Norton has suffered for several months from the infirmities that come with age, and has grown gradually worse, until his sinking to a dangerous condition yesterday...
...customary for those below in the dining hall to call the attention of the guests to their failure to comply with what is considered respectful by tapping a tumbler with one of the table accessories. Past experience has proved that it is seldom or never that visitors so reproved fail to amend their fault. At no other time, however, is it necessary to evince any knowledge of the presence of visitors in the gallery. And at no time whatever is such an exhibition of disgracefully bad manners to be tolerated as has lately been paraded in Memorial Hall before...
...matter how sound may be the basis of the Council as regards constitutionality, it will fail to be effective unless it is thoroughly representative of all the undergraduates. The constitution has provided for this admirably, but even the constitution is helpless in bringing it about unless the men turn out to vote. No written document can elect the right men to serve on a board of this or any other kind--it is a matter for every man in the University to take a hand in and see to it that those men are elected to whom they would most...