Word: defectiveness
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...question which has arisen with regard to the touchdown in the Exeter game points out a serious defect in the conduct of our less important football games. The point brought up may have been somewhat obscure--indeed ability to interpret the rules accurately requires very careful study--but it only emphasizes the need of experienced men to act in these important capacities. In urging this, however, we realize the difficulties which beset the coaches and managers of class and second football teams. They have no central board to assign them officials, and many men who have the experience necessary...
...skill to develop; and it is written in an ejaculatory style, tiresome event for two pages. In "The Landing of an English Snob," an idea not very humorous in itself is treated with some incidental humorous touches. All three stories share in various degree the common defect of seeming theme-like and manufactured...
Small is the use of those educated men who in after life meet no one but themselves, and gather in parlors to discuss wrong conditions which they do not understand and to advocate remedies which have the prime defect of being unworkable. The judgment on practical affairs, political and social, of educated men who keep aloof from the conditions of practical life, is apt to be valueless to those other men who do really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom...
...touched with some of the verbal diseases that afflict the poet of his admiration--the excessive use of abstract terms, and the reluctance to tell us precisely and specifically what he is talking about. The wistful melody of the same contributor's verses have somewhat of this same defect of vagueness. H. Hagedorn '07 in his perilous attempt in an "Ode to Nature" is more successful both in form and thought than he had any right to expect. The "Epitaph on John the Orangeman" is exceedingly happy, though it may be questioned whether this is appropriate praise for an epitaph...
...offense and unable to gain when within striking distance of its opponent's goal. Harvard, on the contrary, showed a remarkably strong offense, but was unable to hold against a faster team. In the practice of the past week much time has been given to remedying this latter defect and, if the team plays to day as it has in the last few days of practice, the chances of winning are good...