Word: failing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...cramming school, and such exceptions must be at the discretion of the Committee on Admissions. And even if some earnest applicants may suffer from a rigorous exclusion of candidates stuffed in cramming schools, it is better that they be refused admittance than that Harvard continue to imbibe and fail to digest a money-qualified, cram-prepared group...
...TIME, Feb. 3). Camped in the Burmese jungle at night, Maugham preferred patience (he knows 17 kinds) to the works of Shakespeare. In the Shan States he admired the women's dress: short coat, kilt, leggings, with a gap between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham met an outlandish character, was often made confidant of an outlandish story. In the teak forests of Siam he met a Frenchman, a gross fellow...
...Army and Navy. . . . [The U. S. and the churches] did not want the War, did not start the War, were powerless to prevent the War, but once drawn in ... prayed and fought for victory and peace. . . . You have no right to ignore underlying moral issues and to fail to distinguish between the will for peace which characterizes America and the will for war which has animated other parts of the world. . . . I know a great number of chaplains. . . . I do not know of one who does not hate war, who does not hope for the outlawry of war, who does...
...sacrifice of sound education to cramming for entrance examinations. The college must have some way of judging its candidates, and this way has resolved itself into the College Entrance Board Examinations. The secondary school must either follow the dictates of preparation set by these tests or else fail to fulfill its raison d' etre of getting men into college. All of this means that more emphasis must be put on getting men into college regardless of keeping them there. The remarks of Dean Hanford elsewhere in today's CRIMSON indicate that it is not the results of the College Boards...
Waggish professors in elementary physics never fail to put to their classes such a question as: "If a stone deaf man, alone on the moon, should shoot off a cannon, would there be any sound?" Ensnared students readily answer yes; should answer...