Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of lectures in the Union which was formerly the most noticable feature of the vocational program. Although these lectures were of undoubted value in showing students new phases of the vocations discussed, they failed to offer any adequate solution of individual difficulties. In view of this defect the men in charge of the work this year have decided to substitute for these general lectures a series of group talks and individual conferences. The attempt will be to get men experienced in various fields to talk with the students who expressed their especial interest in those fields. Although this part...
This situation exposes a fatal defect in the constitution of the League. By forming a council of the Entente powers the Versailles diplomats sought to perpetuate in modified form the six-power system, which had preserved the European balance of power during the nineteenth century. This arrangement has never been very satisfactory, but neither is increasing indefinitely the size of the council a feasible plan. Abolishment of the council altogether is a step which has not been contemplated. Yet such a plan, by placing the members upon an equal footing, would free the Assembly from the dominance...
...current number shows plainly that the alumni have no intention of leaving the subject until everything has been said as many times as possible. Only the one man Harvard Club in Singapore is yet to be heard from; and, since mails from the Orient are notoriously slow, this defect may be remedied at any time...
Sirs: Alice Foote MacDougall [on the LETTERS page of the Nov. 16 issue] expresses what to my mind is a defect in TIME-your style of English, "Came the President," "Sneezed the Senator" and all that sort of thing. It is grotesque, unattractive and as irritating as a sore thumb...
After one reel of Tilden had been shown at last night's Union entertainment, the electricity gave out suddenly, and as the defect could not be located, the entertainment had to be called...