Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...repeat what Coach Wallace has just said to you. Although football is only a game, it is well worth playing hard. The individual members of the team have been playing hard, but much of their work has been nullified by a lack of teamwork. It has been the outstanding fault in all the games so far. A common bond of sympathy is what is needed to make the eleven men play as a unit. I think the real beginning of a team spirit came after the Exeter game, when we began to realize that we had been playing only...
...such an excuse for slackness as slackness has not had in nearly two generations. Because a great burden is laid upon the nation, millions of people feel they can roll various private burdens off their shoulders by four words. The excuse often accentuates the fault. New York Evening Post
...great fault, however, these chronic iconoclasts overlooked. The main business of colleges is teaching; not teaching; this or teaching that, but simply teaching. The colleges ask what is to be taught, and having been informed, they get the best men to be had in the world and teach as no other force can do. And so when war became upper-most in the minds of the American people, the colleges took up their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those...
...Becky Sharp," adapted on much the same method, he had such a link in the radiant personality of Mrs. Fiske. She "made" the play in the sense that through the subtle comedy of her characterization the play literally held together, a coherent, self-justified whole. It is not the fault of the star, but one cannot say this of "Major Pendennis...
Coach William Haines of the crew contributes a short article entitled "Personal Reminiscences." Memoirs should always be of some length--if not, they appear sketchy and conglomerate. This is the chief fault with Coach Haine's article; it is too diffuse. But its material is interesting...