Word: faulted
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Yesterday's editorial in the CRIMSON sums up, in what seems to me a very fair and analytical way, the faults of Social Service work at Harvard. For some time past those who have been interested in Phillips Brooks House have realized vaguely that neighborhood work has been carried out in a very dilatory and hap-hazard fashion. That this was the fault more of the social worker himself than the officers of Phillips Brooks House, has always been apparent. But this fact, however deplorable, has been smoothed over year after year for fear of hurting the feelings of those...
Aimlessness is Chief Fault...
...fault to be found is not with the theory but with the present application. Improve and revitalize the system, and the existing waste energy and effervescent sentimentalism will disappear...
...this is beside the point. Professor Wood fails to reach the core of the question--that this waste is inevitable until man approaches the Utopian, and that it is not, as he seems to imply, the fault of the educators. All men are not born equal, nor is their training equal; lastly, they do not work equally hard. Each freshman admitted to college is certified usually only by the fact that he has met certain tests--imperfect, and restricted to the intellectual. A college can take care of only those who can and are willing to meet its standards. Those...
...defense of China's withdrawal from the Geneva Opium Conference, recalls the fact that the world's drug trade still persists. Every nation has had its share of censure for the failure of that convention,--and the League more than its share. But who was really at fault is still hotly disputed, and Dr. Sye's remarks are a valuable contribution to that debate...