Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That it is not wholly the fault of the student is obvious since this is the one requirement for a degree which seems to present difficulties to the student. Moreover, it is quite safe to say that comparatively few men have found the trouble to be with the French requirement. The problem then resolves itself into this: there is some trouble with the German language or with the German Department and the theory that the language is at fault is quite untenable. The blame can then be laid at the door of the German Department, and, more definitely, some...
...knowledge which would seem to be sufficient foundation--but he must take three specified courses; selected from Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton and Bacon, and Anglo-Saxon. If, at the end of his college career, he has not a complete knowledge of the earlier English writers, it is his own fault. He has built his structure of learning not upon a rock, but upon a whole rock-pile...
...with the League of Nations, to make an end of war, but we can exert ourselves against narcotics. We can't lift a hand to prevent Armenians and Greeks from being massacred, but we can throw ourselves into the struggle to save cattle. When the churches and philanthropists find fault with the Administration, its answer is ready and complete. Only see what we are doing--anthrax and opium! The New York Times...
...English course which is not to be given the next year, and the year after that the course is limited to Freshmen and Sophomores, and so on. The sum total of it all is, that many men graduate from college without ever having come in contact, due to no fault of their own, with more than a few of the faculty, even through the impersonal medium of the lecture hall...
...mean hard work, but without it there would be lacking the training and experience necessary to develop competent editors. The work is not so hard as to interfere seriously with studies, as a glance at the records will show. If a man is not able to handle both, the fault...