Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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W.F.C. Guest, Yale '27,: Overemphasis in studies is the main fault in my opinion. There is too serious a view of life at Harvard which detracts especially from the quality of the football team...
...system in force at Columbia is flexible in the extreme; so flexible is it, in fact, that it is difficult to reach any general conclusions about it....It is here that Columbia's system is at fault, in allowing too much freedom to her undergraduates in removing too completely faculty direction of their choice of studies. This is a fault, however, that is infinitely more desirable than that which one finds in most of the colleges taken up in this article, that of allowing too little freedom to their students...
...that he believes that the present tutorial system is without fault or flaw, quite the contrary. But the Vagabond wishes merely to voice a protest against the too great expansion of the tutorial field at the expense of the lecture system. And this is not--as the malicious will no doubt believe--because his business would decline if lectures were abolished; it is because he firmly believes that lecture courses are, if not more valuable than tutorial work, at least equal to it in educational benefit. Of course, the strong supporter will immediately exhibit the present Oxford system. With...
Tully's Reply Sirs: A letter appeared in a recent issue of TIME [Sept. 26] which attacked me as the writer of Circus Parade. My veracity, my artistry all- all fell under a barage of words. . . . This gentleman finds fault with me because I did not specifically name the caboose as being the last car on the train. I called it a coach. A caboose is also a coach. Even a railroader knows that...
...great deal has been said about the place of the Harvard man, graduate and undergraduate, in the fellowship of educated men. His is not exactly an enviable position in an ever increasing body of university and college members. And it is both his fault and not his deliberate goal. He has been accused and convicted of a colossal mannerism, which can best be described as a superiority complex. And be it said, that proud and vain glorious animal that he is, he has sometimes secretly reveled in the condemnation--a statement applicable almost exclusively to the undergraduate...