Word: defectiveness
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...have to be carried home, and so on through the books. Both the authors are excellent when they describe college scenes, both fail when they introduce an irrelevant romantic element. The chief merit of "Tom Brown at Rugby" is that it tells exclusively of school life; the chief defect of "Tom Brown at Oxford," and one which Mr. Severance has unfortunately imitated, is that college life is made of secondary importance. Neither Mr. Hughes nor Mr. Severance is a first or even second rate novelist, - both are very successful as historians of their boyhood's experience...
...unable to do so in their Senior year, or who may find it profitable to take this one-hour course for two consecutive years. If, as has been affirmed, Harvard men generally lack the power of easy, off-hand speaking, ought not an elective, intended to remedy this defect, to be open to other classes besides Seniors? Or if this elective is too advanced for the under classes, cannot something elementary be given...
...honor on the programme was justly given to the wonderful Introduction and Finale from Wagner's favorite and best music-drama, Tristan. The despair of hopeless love has never been, and perhaps will never again be so well expressed in tones as here. But in interpreting it the chief defect of Thomas's orchestra was revealed. This glowing, passionate composition loses much in effectiveness by being played in such a measured and nicely calculated concert style. The whole opera is like one wild tumultuous torrent of ungovernable passion, and must be played a l' abandon, and with an unconscious enthusiasm...
...method of getting out books is cumbrous and unpleasant; but of course we poor undergraduates are not expected to see its merits, as, indeed, we do not, though its faults are patent to all. The increasing interest in the study of history in this College has laid bare another defect in our Library. Of what works we have duplicate sets (Bancroft, for example), only one set is reserved, so that some man gets hold of the other and holds it till after examination. If we are informed rightly, there is but one copy of Luden's, one of Giesebrecht...
...nineteen men to whom were assigned Commencement parts, no one of them chose a literary subject: political economy, philosophy, and history were well represented, and one or two men expressed a liking for fine-arts, but literature had no friends. Undoubtedly, many will see in this fact a defect in the instruction given in college; but we think that the reason lies not so much in the kind of instruction as in the tendency of the thought of to-day, -a tendency with which the choice of subjects coincides. One year's choice, however, is insufficient data from which...