Word: fault
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rejoice in the start that has been made against snobbery among us. But I hope that this question will not be confined to the comparatively limited extent of the snobbery toward good yet socially unpolished athletes, which was the burden of the senior class dinner oration. The only fault to be found with that oration is that it did not go far enough and condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There are many cases...
...correspondingly more interesting. The arrangement of the societies, etc., is about the same as in last year's book, but there is a great improvement in the advertisements, which are better selected and greater in number than heretofore. The typographical errors are numerous, and this is the chief fault in the book; but it is well-nigh impossible with sometimes very carelessly given data to work upon, to publish such a collection of groups without having many mistakes in orthography. On the whole the Index for 1887-88 is an improvement over its predecessors and does great credit...
...admit of practice in the gymnasium as well as on the field. They will accomplish the purpose for which they are held, only if men go in with a will and train for them faithfully. Every athletic man in college ought to feel that it would be partly his fault if Harvard should fail to win the cup this year, and for that reason ought to take every opportunity to help on the work of the team...
...other pieces are "Venus Victa" and "The Message." The former is not as successful an effort as the "Venus Victrix" of the same author, and in this, perhaps, lies its chief fault. It should have come first and so prevented the disappointment we must feel on comparing the two. "The Message" is scarcely up to the usual standard of the Monthly, though it is a fair bit of verse, and, coming as it does from a new contributor, gives promise of better work in the future...
...eleven we acknowledge our gratitude for their faithful and untiring work this fall and they may be certain that their deeds will not soon be forgotten. We must content ourselves this year with an honorable second place, and with the determination that next year, it shall be no fault of ours if the crimson does not float above the blue...