Word: defectiveness
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...student who enjoys a phonograph record by Kreisler played twice as fast as it was ever meant to be played will enjoy Fine Arts 1d immensely. The only defect in the course is the tremendous speed at which it is given. One half year is all the time allotted to dashing through early Christian art to Medieval art through it to Renaissance art, through Renaissance art to modern art, and finally landing somewhat winded in the lap of a post-Impressionist. Professor Edgell strives nobly to make up for the shortness of the time by grinding out words and witty...
...that provided by your professional waitresses at Harvard. Social equality and unobtrusive service do not go hand in hand with many persons. However, if it is understood that there are plenty of people waiting for, and needing jobs, and that retention of jobs depends on quiet efficiency, this defect could, in my opinion, be remedied. ---The Amherst Student...
...experimenter. The sunshine falling in eight hours on a square mile in the tropics is equivalent to the energy stored in 7,400 tons of coal. The difficulty is to devise a sunshine catcher which is not expensive out of all proportion to the power produced. This is the defect of the commonest solar machines which have appeared so far-huge concave reflectors which focus on a boiler, make steam to drive small engines. One of the most optimistic U. S. experimenters, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott of Smithsonian Institution, has invented a "sun cooker" with which he roasts meat, bakes...
...adjunct as it might be used by a member of any other school of practice. Stimulating or "massaging" the nerve trunk near its exit from the spinal canal would affect organs associated with that nerve trunk through communicating branches but would not particularly affect a spinal structural defect such as Mr. Murphy...
...little apple-John," was "small, quiet, precise... In print he had authority and effectiveness; but he had neither of these qualities as chief executive of the nation;" William Howard Taft was a "genial, unambitious man who never got over the surprise at finding himself president;" Wilson's "chief character-defect... (was) his failure to remember that opponents could be honest, decent men." Here, again, there is nothing new. But in these and other sketches, Mr. Agar shows a detachment and insight decidedly worthy of notice...