Word: defectiveness
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...female the articulation of the humorous with the ulna and radius is imperfect, thus causing a constant angle at the elbow. When, therefore, the racket hits a ball, it tends to knock it high up in the air. Some have said that this defect is the chief in causing the female to be a poor tennis player. The smallness of her ribs, thinness of the scapula, and shortness of the clavicle unite to prevent her from reaching high balls. These defects, together with the unusually large size of the triceps extensor muscle, make it hard for the female to serve...
...dreadful gulf. Men run sufficient risk of injury in their daily life not to be able to gratefully omit the added peril of total darkness and icy, slippery steps. We feel assured that if the inconvenience to the students were fully appreciated by the powers that be, the defect would be speedily remedied. Let us hope that it will be appreciated...
...pitcher is good and is supported by a catcher who can hold his delivery, the batting and fielding qualifications of the rest of the nine become minor points of consideration, while if the pitcher is poor no excellence on the part of other players can remedy the defect. The pitcher, with the assistance of the catcher, is depended on to do the work for the whole nine. Small scores are the natural result. A team knows that it cannot do much of anything itself against an effective delivery, and so devotes its energies to keeping the other side from doing...
While in America, as some believe, we are suffering from a superfluity of athletics, Germany on the other hand is just beginning to find out that in a lack of athletic sports is the greatest defect of her system of education. The minister of public instruction of the German empire, it is reported, has recently issued a circular addressed to the authorities of the various gymnasia and universities of the country instructing them to encourage athletic sports at these institutions in every way in their power. The reason for this move is said to lie in the alarming deterioration that...
...hand and on the left of their brothers to protect their reputation and assert their merit." "Harvard indifference" again, we hear Snodkins whisper! They truly claim, I think, "that the poetico-bombastick style of newspaper eloquence, which has been often and liberally ascribed to college, is as little the defect of our execution, as the object of our ambition." Very bitterly they continue: "The world without cares for nothing but politicks and commerce and news; it is a money-making, quarrelsome world of vandals; it cannot understand our Latin nor our Greek, and it thinks our English not worth reading...