Word: defective
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that the Harvard team has rare offensive strength. A swifter attack than that shown through much of the game has seldom been attained by a Harvard eleven. It must be admitted, however, that the failure to grasp opportunities to score is so far from exceptional that evidence of this defect has come to seem almost meritable in each and every game; the game with Pennsylvania was no exception to this generality...
...idea of the poem, it is true, seems on a second reading, falsely dramatic, and is not justified by the scant explanation of its motive; yet the ease of the lines and the unfailing interest in the thought go a long way toward helping the reader to overlook this defect. Another piece of verse, "March in Massachusetts," by L. W., makes one wish to drop work and get into the country...
McGrew stroked the Newell Seniors, and the general work of the crew showed improvement. The chief defect of all the crews is the shortness of the stroke and the lack of drive at the finish. The Freshman crews have good material, but the men have been unusually slow in becoming accustomed to the work on the water. The orders are still undecided, except that of the Newell Seniors, which is for the present fixed as follows: Stroke, McGrew; 7, Ayer; 6, Foster; 5, Haycock; 4, Stevens; 3, James; 2, Stone; bow, Boardman; cox., Litchfield...
...method of a close corporation, therefore, would be deprived of a check which has proved wholesome in the past. It remains to be seen how far its positive and obvious advantages outweigh this defect. In the first place, it is to fill its own vacancies, and therefore to insure higher experience and greater continuity of management. No doubt it is desirable that such an important business should be relieved from the fluctuations of accidental choice of Directors; and though Mr. Meyer assures us that in practice the Board nominates its own successors, there have been cases where that precaution...
...Another defect of the plan is that a body of trustees responsible only to public opinion is created for a purpose very uncommon in trusteeships: trustees frequently have the care of real estate and sometimes carry on business for a brief period while closing up an estate; but the proposition before us is that a self-perpetuating board of five trustees undertake to carry on a mercantile business, with the details of which none of them can be familiar. No prudent owner of a business fails to give directors to a business manager who has only a salary interest. When...