Word: fault
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale crew has been handicapped by the recent loss of Auchincloss, No. 2, on account of ill health, and by the requirement of the Faculty that the men should go to New Haven for examinations. The most conspicuous fault of the crew is a slow, ragged recovery, and a tendency not to row together...
...Macaulay as a Literary Critic," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, and "Coventry Patmore's Conception of Genius" by J. La Farge, Jr., 1901, These criticisms are all interesting and full of care and precision in composition and in style. But in this respect they suffer from a fault which mars many a Monthly contribution. They are more careful than anything else. They are not surprising, original or absorbing in subject matter, nor yet interesting for any novelty of treatment. They read as if they had been turned out for the English department to begin with, and afterwards much revised...
...speaking was, on the whole, very creditable and showed careful preparation. The main fault consisted in a tendency to make unauthorized statements. From the ten men selected at the first trial March 14, the judges, W. E. Hutton 3L and W. E. Weaver '98, chose H. W. Bowker, L. M. Dougan, J. G. Peirce, and J. C. Mangan (alternate...
...chief fault to be found at present with the boating plans for the spring is in the lack of provision for any general activity after the middle of April when the class races are to take place. It certainly seems as though there ought to be more than two crews of 'Varsity candidates kept on the river during the last two months of the year, the best months of all for rowing. If the present interest shown in the sport can be taken to mean anything, we believe that a second class race or a regatta between scrub crews, held...
...regularly until yesterday and is still likely to make a place in the boat. DuBois was moved from bow to 7; and Marvin and Riggs have been tried at 2 and 3 respectively. The crew as a whole rows long and evenly with a smooth recover. Their greatest fault is a tendency to hang at the full reach. Mr. Mumford coaches every day rowing in the boat, occupying the coxswain's seat or using the launch...