Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unhappily Horace's saying is sometimes reversed, and heroic men as often fail to the bard as the bard to them), there would only be love. I merely put the case as a comment on the assertion we sometimes hear that if we have no poetry it is the fault of the poets, since the material always abundantly exists in human nature. Undoubtedly it does,- the passions and desires, the loves, hopes and despairs of men are the raw material,- but there are periods in which that material is more abundant or of finer staple, when the passions have freer...
Ever since the season began, J. Lowell '94 has had the men in charge, and it is through no fault of his that they have made such a poor showing. The players themselves are wholly to blame. They possess considerable ability which can be worked up to advantage, if the men will only work and show some interest in the game. In yesterday's game Warren and Lord played well for the freshmen and Edwards and Maguire did good work for the Boston Latin School nine...
...fiction of the number, there is once more noticeable an unfortunate lack of originality. The fault in the Advocate stories is not so much in the treatment of the subject as in the subject treated. The articles, at least in the present number, are very well written. It is only the uninteresting assurance of what is to come, that in a measure spoils the pleasure in following the development of a plot...
...general fault of the crew seems to be a tendency to rush the slide and jerk the arms. The men will go into the shell in a day or two and during the vacation will row in the morning and afternoon. Mayor Bancroft and Nelson Perkins coached on Saturday and the men rowed as follows: Stroke, Fennessy; No. 7, Blake; No. 6, L. Davis (capt.); No. 5, Waters; No. 4, Bullard; No. 3, Townsend; No. 2, F. Davis; bow, Purdon...
Considerable improvement has been evinced in the sophomore crew since Derby and A. Brewer have joined them. The body work of the crew as a whole is creditable; the most prominent fault seems to be a tendency to clip at the catch and row out at the finish...