Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large institutions the student does not come into close contact with those who are charged with educating him may be true as far as the larger courses are concerned, but little further. If a student does not meet his professor in a non-academic way, it is his own fault. Faculty members set aside particular times to see men, in addition stating that they are always glad to receive anyone at any time when it is possible to arrange it. While there are some who avail themselves of this opportunity, the majority hesitate to cross the threshold of a professor...
...fault was not that of the usher. He had reported to the marshal as soon as the doors were opened, had been immediately assigned to an aisle in the first gallery, and almost before he could hang us his coat had been swamped by a rush of spectators. Then he discovered that the seats were numbered as no seats ever were numbered before. A lightning calculation could not have figured out the location of any one seat; a search was necessary--like that for the needle in a haystack. For example--in the first gallery the seats in sections...
...present in American colleges in general, but our present concern is with Dartmouth life! Given common convictions against the cheap, the low, the unintelligent and the evil, the greater the variety of types and of attributes among Dartmouth men, the stronger the College will be. The evidence of the fault may be taken from less consequential things as well as from more. The presence of an additional button on the coat beyond that pictured in current tailor's advertisements, a variation in the height of the belted waist-line, a slight inaccurary in sighting the line of the part...
...Tumulty's book has one fault which will immediately condemn it for a majority of readers; his own petty personality intrudes in every sentence. The book might better be termed an autobiography of the president's secretary, for the greater man is distinctly secondary. It is scarcely believable that the writer deliberately set out to belittle Mr. Wilson to his own advantage; yet the impression which one first receives from the book is of a weakling acting as the tool of his secretary's superior intelligence, an impression far removed, by the way, from that given by Boswell...
There exists in the mind of the public a great deal of confusion about the official objects which the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament is called to accomplish and about the proper measure of its success or failure. This confusion is not entirely the public's fault. It is born of an underlying infirmity of purpose in the plans of the administration. The President during the campaign incurred a clear obligation to move in the direction of peace through international agreement, and for that purpose he was bound to summon a conference of the Allied and Associated Powers...