Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most notable fault of the '91 crew is a very weak finish. Many of the men have a tendency to meet their oars, and as a consequence the shoot is poor throughout the boat. The crew has been rowing lately in the tank once or twice, when special attention was paid to the recover and as a result they have gotten rid of one fault-that of dropping down on the full reach. However there seems to be a general lack of earnestness in the work. Of course it is too early to predict anything in regard to the races...
...musical abilities of the college." Our desire is to get the best musical ability in college and if we do not secure it we are not to blame for our failure. If men, who consider themselves good musicians do not attend the trials it is not the club's fault but its misfortune. To the best of our judgment we select the men having the best voices and every man has an equal show...
...Nelson, '93, 164 pounds. New man. Rows very well for the time he has been at it. No one particular fault but a general want of freedom in his action, and stiffness in his arms and shoulders; controls his slide fairly well but is slow and stiff...
...chief gain in shortening the course would appear to lie in lowering the age of graduates from the professional schools. But could not this be accomplished in other ways? The true fault lies, not in our academic department, but in the preparatory and lower schools. There is no reason why the American schools, should not, like the European schools, educate their pupils in sixteen or seventeen years instead of nineteen. It seems quite possible that Harvard might gain a year at least by exerting her influence upon the larger preparatory schools, some of which already offer a shorter course than...
...told that the management of last year's freshman baseball association is still in debt to the extent of some hundreds of dollars. The matter has been allowed to run during the past fall, but the time has come when a settlement must speedily be made, Whether the fault of the existing state of affairs lies with the manager of the Ninety-two nine or whether with the class we do not know. It certainly seems, however, as if the management had made exceedingly bad calculations for the expenditures for the season, or else had been very slack about making...