Word: defectiveness
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...fight Hard. The Harvard team has shown steady improvement in fielding, base-running and team work and the Holy Cross game although a defeat, was, from a Harvard standpoint, the most game this year. Hitting is still the team's weak point and the confidence which will remedy this defect will be given by hearty cheering...
...reports for the last three years, is less than $5,600 a year. The only redeeming feature commonly claimed for the subscription system is that it affords a way of trying out managers on the competitive plan; but in reality this has been not a merit, but a defect of the system, for it is well known that the appointment of the candidate who got the most money has not been the inviolable rule. In 1900-01 the Graduate Manager himself proposed the abandonment of the subscription plan. He said: "At present, the University Crew and track teams are supported...
...contribution to the understanding of the trust problem: The book differs from some others in the same field in being concise, clear and interesting. At the same time satisfactory authoritativeness is given to the positions of the author by many and exact references to representative present day combinations. The defect of the work is its brevity: Many of the subjects touched upon we should like to see more exhaustively discussed; especially by an author showing such balance and insight...
...residents in the pension to be mildly insane. There follow a series of uproariously funuy scenes between Klapproth and the "patients" Josephine Kruger, who is continually searching for material for a new novel: Fritz Bernhardy, an inveterate traveller: Eugen Rumpel, a young man with dramatic aspirations and a defect in his speech: Grober, an irascible old soldier: and Amalic Pfeiffer, who is constantly searching for a husband for her daughter...
...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...