Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...young men should be subjected to a much more thorough and comprehensive examination"; "colleges do little toward the education of students in etiquette"--such are the leading points in the arraignment. So far so good. Discouraged by the shiftlessness and mental ineffectiveness of American undergraduates, the dean yet finds fault not so much with the students as with the administration of our colleges. The student needs a deal of improvement, he makes it plain, but he cannot be expected entirely to regenerate himself while the system remains poor...
Losing only three letter men from the 1914 baseball team and gaining a wealth of material from the present Sophomore class, Princeton has a good outlook for the coming baseball season. Weak hitting was the main fault with last year's team, but this should be remedied by the addition to the squad of several hard hitters from last spring's freshman nine...
That the present system of allotting rooms in the freshman dormitories at New Haven is inadequate is admitted by Dean Jones of Yale in an interview with a representative of the Yale News. The chief fault in the system is that the large preparatory school men, fully aware of the housing conditions at Yale, apply for rooms and congregate in one dormitory, thereby spoiling to a large degree a perfect class democracy, inasmuch as those men who enter from the smaller schools find it necessary to room elsewhere. He suggests a return to the system of drawing...
...series of lectures at the Lowell Institute, on "Le Drame Musicale Francais Contemporain." The combination of an important topic of the French theatres and an interpreter of high critical standards who is thoroughly familiar with his subject should change indifference to interest. It may or may not be our fault that we show little curiosity in "Nietzsche"; we are certainly to blame if we miss hearing of an art that touches a great part of the French people, and is universal in its influence...
...Police graft," said Mr. Woods in conclusion, "is not primarily the fault of the grafting policeman--it is to his credit that there is not more graft. And there is no adequate way of rewarding policemen for good work; yet you find them on the whole doing pretty good work with very fair honesty--for a body...