Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...took over a great many tasks that were demanded of it and the fact that it did not accomplish every one in a manner to bring praise from everybody cannot be a very serious fault. Often the work of the organization is condemned because one secretary was taken as an example of the remainder of the men in France. When it is considered that there was supposed to be one secretary to every five hundred soldiers the impossibility of every man measuring up to the standard set by the soldiers is seen. Think of the films that have been showing...
...first crew any more than he would get all A's--but as fear of missing this latter honor does not deter him from developing his mind, so there seems no reason for him to hesitate to develop his body because it may never bring him an "H". "The fault, dear Brutus," lies not in our athletic system, but in ourselves...
Such was the case last week of Professor Hart. Because of no fault on his part, his name was connected with those of certain individuals who were supposed to be pro-German before America's entrance into the war. It is gratifying to learn that Professor Hart had the opportunity of appearing before the Senate Committee, and that he convinced them that there was no foundation for any charge of pro-Germanism on his part...
Unless memory is at fault it took Harvard Law School some time last spring to regard it as the part of wisdom to allow some leaway to such students of the School as wanted to go to Plattsburg training camp. Despite the fact that it eventually saw the light, it seems now to have returned to the position it took at the beginning of the war. According to advices from Cambridge, it has repealed the vote whereby men leaving college three or four weeks early to enter the service shall be given credit for a full year's work. This...
What a pity it is that we cannot learn to be a little more unassuming, a little more willing to share the limelight with a worthy partner, to subordinate our selves to the Cause. The individual soldiers are not to be blamed. The fault lies deeper yet. It is with the American public at home who insist upon regarding war as a glorious sport at which our athletes are in nature bound to win. Parade after parade, motion pictures, books, and pamphlets confirm it. Our newspapers describe in four-inch headlines of alternated red and black how five "Yanks" have...