Word: fault
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Minton's fault is throwing while off his balance. His batting is improving...
Earlier in the season Harvard defeated Tufts at the Tufts gymnasium by the score of 28 to 20. Harvard's principal fault now is lack of speed and dash, though the team is also weak at throwing baskets from the sides of the floor. The team as a whole is very skillful at passing and because of this has won five out of the nine games played thus...
...method of treating individuals is notable. Professor Wendell does not take Holmes, Bryant, Whitman, and Longfellow and treat them as unrelated individuals, but takes the work of each as a special medium through which to see American character. The great fault of previous looks on American literature has been that they have over-estimated the merits of American authors. Professor Wendell, though thoroughly American in spirit, is almost too reluctant in his praise of our best literature...
...recent change in the arrangement of the shower baths at the Gymnasium remedies what was hitherto a serious fault of the equipment. Formerly the hot water was led from a tank containing water at a boiling temperature, and mixed with water at the same pressure by adjustment at the valves connected with each shower. Caroless turning on of the hot water or increased flow of hot water, due to the shutting off of other valves in the shower-room, frequently led to unpleasant scalding accidents. An automatic temperature regulator has now been introduced which does not allow the water...
...afternoon the party, including Professors Williams, Beecher and Pearson of Yale, took the train to Meriden, passing the escarpment of the hanging hills on the way, and going on to the large quarries in the lava beds north of the city. From there the party went along the great fault line where the displacement measures about 2,000 feet and to the so called ass bed at the base of Lamentation Mountain. The Harvard party returned to Cambridge in the evening...