Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different aspects of the labor situation, particularly in regard to the open shop, collective bargaining and compulsory arbitration. He is a strong defender of the first two principles, but believes that the last does more to cultivate the striking habit than to restrain it. He lays this fault principally to the impossibility of enforcing the strike-prevention law. While America is in a stage of industrial upheaval, Australia has already gone through this development, and in Mr. Sheldon's speech its experience should be valuable in the settling of problems here...
...proposal of having two parallel complete systems of education at Harvard, the present system and one based on what the supporters of the Educational Association would term the English system. Such a duplication of effort would be impossible to maintain at any University. A second, and more surprising fault is the expression of opposition to a scheme whereby tutors may grade the examination papers of their own pupils. No such scheme exists at Harvard now, or ever did, so far as can be ascertained...
...dinner given by a group of Chinese dignitaries in honor of an American, the foreigner, through no fault of the Eighteenth Amendment, but rather of a very highly polished chair, slipped from his seat and disappeared under the table. His embarrassment was somewhat palliated by the grave courteny of his hosts; one by one, in turn, each of the Orientals slid from his chair under the table, so as to make the visitor feel quite at home...
...Class Ode, by Paul Rice Doolin, is a good chore well done, and there is no particular fault to be found with Mr. King's "Comradeship," in the June number. The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem, by A. Morley Dobson, shows much skill in the difficult sestina, but far too little depth of judgement. In more senses than one, it is simple to uphold one side of the Flume controversy, and only to rhapsodize, not judge, or analyze the question. The normal reaction from this sort of thing has been expressed by an undergraduate some months ago, in the Harvard...
...fault lies somewhat in a lack of self-confidence, which is partly due to the failure of the college authorities to give any public encouragement to the student, except at the present time of the year...