Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sovereign, like whiskey and soda? As far as we are able to see, "Nobody knows--and nobody seems to care." All we may do is to be philosophical like the valet, who tried to comfort his master in an agony of gout with the words: "It's not your fault, sir. You really cawn't help your constitution...
...realize that the cost of Senior picnics; like everything else, has increased. Two hundred and twelve dollars is worth less than half what it was before the war, but even at its face value, the sum is the least that has been collected in any recent year. The fault does not lie so much with those Freshmen who were present as with that large portion of the class which did not come to the steps of Widener. To make the Senior picnic a success, the Freshmen must swell their subscription in some way, and a drive conducted in the class...
...short essay, "A Literary Mania." Mr. Colby justly asserts that the appreciation of literature has been supplanted by the glibness of a catalogue, that we no longer read with enthusiasm or perception but merely with a pedantic consciousness of literary tendencies and influences. This too is the fault of the college. After a well phrased statement of this lamentable situation, Mr. Colby wisely withdraws. Perhaps at this point he became aware of certain difficulties which escaped Mr. Chapin's observation: that if we are to lift the colleges we must first lift the epoch on which the colleges are superimposed...
What a pity! Such a fine system is debarred, through no fault of its own, from playing the full role which it is destined to play. The limitations are not inherent but exterior to it. The intrinsic value of the system is then, in no wise diminished. The sole trouble with this superimposed tutorial system is that there is no room made for it to stand on. It depends for its execution on the spasmodic efforts of the individual and on the mercy of the overwhelming regular work. Its co-existence with the undiminished ordinary study renders its very existence...
...They cheek with the blighting hand of Expediency the clear-cut stroke of Justice. They may be Statesmen, but they can never be thinkers. They may follow: but they never lead. They may pride themselves that though they are not trial breakers they are road-makers; but their greatest fault is that they are usually frightened off the straight and narrow path into tortuous and crooked detours or endless halts, but the growling of the big pussies in the tall timber. HAROLD M. FLEMING...